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

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.

7927. Fact

The CIA has made a disk camera that is as big as a quarter. This gadget can take many pictures at a time when the disk is opened.

7928. Fact

In Albany, New York, you cannot play golf in the streets.

7929. Fact

Four is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number.

7930. Fact

The most frequent season for most suicides to occur is in the spring. The winter months have the lowest number of suicides