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.

8116. Fact

A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.

8117. Fact

The bible does not specify exactly how many wise men were sent to Bethleham.

8118. Fact

In M&M candies, the letters stand for Mars and Murrie, the developers of the candy in 1941.

8119. Fact

A million dollars'worth of $100 bills weighs only 22 pounds.

8120. Fact

Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of Lorne Greene's Animal Kingdom.

8121. Fact

A fly always jumps backwards for a quick getaway when you try to hit it.

8122. Fact

Wesley Snipes installed public telephones while struggling to become an actor in New York.

8123. Fact

It is Texas law when two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and neither shall proceed until the other has gone.

8124. Fact

The youngest actress to be nominated as best actress is Keisha Castle-Hughes who was nominated at just 13 years old

8125. Fact

It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.

8126. Fact

The earliest known example of an organized market for equities dates from Rome, second century B.C

8127. Fact

Including the 2000 World Series, there have been only three meetings between teams from the same city: 1906 (Cubs vs. White Sox), 1944 (Cardinals vs. Browns) and 2000 (Mets vs. Yankees).

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