7907. Fact

The average marathon runner's heart beats about 175 times per minute during a race. A typical adult's heart beats 68 times a minute at rest.

7908. Fact

In April 1964, The Beatles had the top five songs in the United States. This is the only time that the top five songs at any one time were by the same group.

7909. Fact

The leading cause of deaths for children between the ages of 1 and 4 are motor vehicle crashes.

7910. Fact

Polar bear livers contain so much Vitamin A that it can be fatal if eaten by a human

7911. Fact

Everyday, U.S. business use enough paper to circle the Earth over 20 times

7912. Animal Facts

The Pharaoh ant likes to live in hospitals where it feasts on wounds, bloody bandages and solutions for dripping into patient's bodies.

7913. Animal Facts

A giraffe can lick inside its own ears.

7914. Fact

Studies indicate that weightlifters working out in blue gyms can handle heavier weights

7915. Fact

It is estimated that 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 snowflakes have fallen to the earth since it was formed.

7916. Fact

The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.

7917. Fact

There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones.

7918. Fact

Pound cake is so named not just because of the pound of butter, but more precisely because each of the four main ingredients (flour, butter, sugar and eggs) are weighed out as a pound.

7919. Fact

The Leaning Tower of Pisa is 58.36 metres above the ground

7920. Animal Facts

A single female fly can hatch up to 1,000 babies (maggots) in her lifetime.

7921. Fact

The daughter of confectioner Leo Hirschfield is commemorated in the name of the sweet he invented: Although his daughter's real name was Clara, she went by the nickname Tootsie, and in her honor, her father named his chewy chocolate logs Tootsie Rolls.

7922. Fact

It is impossible to drink more than a gallon of milk in 1 hour without throwing up.

7923. Fact

The word breakfast was coined due to the fact that after sleeping for hours, we are breaking our fast.

7924. Fact

The catgut formerly used as strings in tennis rackets and musical instruments does not come from cats. Catgut actually comes from sheep, hogs, and horses.

7925. Fact

The first formal rules for playing the sport of baseball required the winning team to score 21 runs

7926. Fact

The word set has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

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