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.

8109. Fact

It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States

8110. Fact

It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

8111. Fact

There has only been 193,000 metric tonnes of gold discovered to date.

8112. Fact

Hitler and Napolean both had only one testical

8113. Fact

During the winter, squirrels make waterproof nests in hollow trees.

8114. Fact

Amazon ants (red ants found in the western U.S.) steal the larvae of other ants to keep as slaves. The slave ants build homes for and feed the Amazon ants, who cannot do anything but fight. They depend completely on their slaves for survival.

8115. Fact

There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today. However, about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers. The most widely spoken language in the world is Mandarin Chinese. There are 885,000,000 people in China that speak that language.

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