8151. Fact

The chances for a mother giving birth to quadruplets (four children) are almost 1 in 600,000.

8152. Fact

A man and woman in Mexico city were engaged for 67 yrs and finally married at the age of 82 yrs.

8153. Fact

True spiders always have organs for spinning silk known as spinnerets

8154. Fact

In 1785, the city of Paris removed bones from cemeteries to ease the overflow of dead people. They took these bones and stacked them in tunnels now known as the Catacombs. You can visit these tunnel attractions and work your way along long corridors, which are stacked with skulls and bones

8155. Fact

The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing

8156. Fact

In 1836 the U.S. government had so much extra money that it repaid all its debts, and still had money left over.

8157. Fact

Lightning bolts can sometimes be hotter than the sun.

8158. Fact

Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.

8159. Fact

An ounce of gold can be beaten up into a sheet covering 9.3 sq. meters, or drawn into 80.5 kms (50 miles) of wire.

8160. Fact

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

8161. Fact

All of Chrysler's PT Cruisers are built in Mexico.

8162. Fact

In the year 1763, there were over 200 coffee shops in Venice.

8163. Fact

The first toothbrush with bristles was developed in China in 1498. Bristles were taken from hogs at first, later from horses. The nylon bristles were developed in 1938 by DuPont.

8164. Fact

For every degree of longitude there is a time gap of four minutes.

8165. Fact

Smelling bananas can help a person lose weight

8166. Fact

Only one in two billion people will live to be 116 or older.

8167. Fact

More than 3000 years ago children played with circular hoops made with grape vines. This toy was swung around the waist. Years later this toy was made by company called Wham-O and the Hula-Hoop was invented in 1958

8168. Fact

Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever

8169. Fact

The penalty for killing a cat, 4,000 years ago in Egypt, was death.

8170. Fact

For the movie Tootsie actor Dustin Hoffman thought of the title. His mother used to call him that as a child

Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize : Economics
Year : 1993
Name : robert w. fogel
Country : united states.
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