8086. Fact

The Dutch acquired Surinam in exchange for Manhattan Island in 1667.

8087. Fact

It is illegal for a man to kiss a woman while she is asleep in Logan County, Colorado.

8088. Fact

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

8089. Fact

Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'.

8090. Fact

In Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) does not blink in any scene.

8091. Fact

Each day the sun causes about one trillion tons of water to evaporate

8092. Fact

Montreal is the second largest French speaking city after Paris

8093. Fact

I am. is the second shortest complete sentence in the English language

8094. Fact

A gelotologist is a person who studies laughter

8095. Fact

Over the last 50 years in the United States, approximately 9,000 people have died as a result of tornadoes, 5,000 as the result of floods, and 4,000 as the result of hurricanes.

8096. Fact

Walter Huston and his son John become the first father-and-son team to win Oscars as director of and an actor in Treasure of Sierra Madre in 1949.

8097. Fact

The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins.

8098. Fact

Male sea horses are the ones that get impregnated rather than the females. Males have a pouch on their belly that provides incubation for the female?s eggs and they can have up to 1500 babies at one time

8099. Fact

Jimmy Carter was the first President born in a hospital.

8100. Fact

While sailing along the Caribbean coast of South America in 1499, the Spanish explorer Alonso de Ojedo saw Indian houses built on stilts over the water. The area reminded him of Venice, and he named it Little Venice, which in Spanish is Venezuela.

8101. Fact

Mozart sold one of his most prized pieces, Symphony No. 5 for under $20.

8102. Fact

The youngest pope was 11 years old

8103. Fact

In Japan, condoms are commonly sold 'door to door'.

8104. Fact

The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100-watt bulb for five hours

8105. Fact

The leading cause of poisoning for children under the age of six in the home is liquid dish soap

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