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7719. Fact
The aorta, the largest artery in the body, is almost the diameter of a garden hose.
7720. Fact
Eyebrow hair lasts between 3-5 months before it sheds
7721. Fact
There is a Hamburger hall of fame in Seymour, Wisconsin
7722. Fact
An estimated $1 million is lost at race tracks each year by people who lose or carelessly throw away winning tickets.
7723. Animal Facts
Locusts, like giant grasshoppers or crickets, travel in swarms of up to 80 million and each eats its own weight in plants every day.
7724. Fact
The world's most popular hobby is stamp collecting.
7725. Fact
It is common in Israel and Egypt to eat watermelon with feta cheese
7726. Fact
The largest human organ is the liver, which weighs about 55 ounces in a person weighing 150 pounds. By some definitions, the skin is an organ, in which case skin would be the largest organ at 384 ounces.
7727. Fact
If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available. (The bigger the flower, the more desperate)
7728. Fact
Before Columbus, Europe had never tasted corn, potatoes, tomatoes, red peppers, sweet potatoes, tapioca, chocolate, pumpkins, squash, coconuts, pineapples, strawberries, and much more. Why? All these food items are native to America.
7729. Fact
The largest bill U.S. bill made is for $100,000
7730. Fact
Seniors who drink a cup of coffee before a memory test score higher than those who drink a cup of decaffeinated coffee
7731. Fact
Conservationalists and Conversationalists (18 letters) are the longest non-scientific transposals (word formed from another by changing its letters).
7732. Fact
Babies who wear disposable diapers are five times more likely to develop diaper rash than those that wear cotton diapers
7734. Fact
If you could count the number of times a cricket chirps in one minute, divide by 2, add 9 and divide by 2 again, you would have the current temperature in celcius degrees.
7735. Fact
It is against the law in Oregon to fish with canned corn.
7736. Fact
The largest Great White Shark ever caught measured 37 feet and weighed 24,000 pounds. It was found in a herring weir in New Brunswick in 1930.
7737. Fact
Archipelago is the word to describe a large group of islands that are located close together
7738. Fact
According to the International Labor Organization, a member of the labor force is someone between the age of 15 and 64.
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There's enough water preassure in one onion cell to cause a steam engine to explode.
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