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

7931. Fact

Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.

7932. Fact

In France, it is legal to marry a dead person.

7933. Fact

The longest cave in the world is the 'Mammoth Cave System'in the USA at 560,000 mtrs deep.

7934. Fact

Close to 3 billion movie tickets are sold in India every year

7935. Fact

Apparently, according to Playtex, the best selling bra sizes these days are 34B and 36B.

7936. Fact

A leech has 32 brains

7937. Fact

The Republic of Israel was established April 23, 1948.

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