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7820. Fact
Q is the only letter that does not appear in the names of any state of the Unites States.

7821. Fact
Women on average live seven years longer than men do

7822. Fact
Martha Stewart became a billionaire while in prison.

7823. Fact
The world record for balancing people on your head is 92 in one hour.

7824. Fact
Francis Scott Key was a young lawyer who wrote the poem, 'The Star Spangled Banner', after being inspired by watching the Americans fight off the British attack of Baltimore during the War of 1812. The poem became the words to the national anthem

7825. Fact
To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a crumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca Cola.

7826. Animal Facts
Head lice have two sharp mouth parts – one cuts through your skin and sucks up blood, the other pumps out spit containing a chemical that stops your blood clotting.

7827. Fact
Prostate gland is a muscular gland encircling the urethra in the male that produces much of the seminal fluid.

7828. Fact
India has a Bill of Rights for cows

7829. Fact
Playing cards were issued to British pilots in World War II. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.

7830. Fact
An average American eats approximately 60 hot dogs per year

7831. Fact
The infamous Red Baron was German World War I pilot Manfred von Richthofen.

7832. Fact
Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during W.W.I

7833. Fact
Mel Gibson has a horseshoe kidney (two kidneys fused into one).

7834. Animal Facts
A lamprey is like an eel but has no jaws. Instead, it has a sucker-like mouth with rows of teeth. It attaches itself to a fish, digs itself in and then sucks all the fluids out of the fish, eventually killing it.

7835. Fact
One out of five people that eat ice cream binge on ice cream in the middle of the night. The person is usually between 18 - 24 years old

7836. Fact
Chewing gum has rubber as an ingredient

7837. Fact
At 840,000 square miles, Greenland is the largest island in the world. It is three times the size of Texas. By comparison, Iceland is only 39,800 square miles.

7838. Fact
Dynamite contains peanuts.

7839. Fact
Kermit the frog delivered the commencement address at Southampton College located in the state of New York in 1996

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