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.

7938. Fact

Red wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles

7939. Fact

Dutch, on average are the tallest people

7940. Fact

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies

7941. Fact

Many scholars believe that an earthquake caused the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, referred to in the Bible as the smoke of the country. Earthquakes produce massive clouds of dust that resemble billowing smoke.

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