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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

8106. Fact
Pluto is the only planet in our solar system that has not been visited by a spacecraft

8107. Fact
The only president buried in Washington, D.C. proper: Woodrow Wilson, who was laid to rest in the National Cathedral.

8108. Fact
A Portsmouth, Ohio law ranks baseball players with vagrants, thieves and other suspicious characters.

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