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

8171. Fact

There are over 9 million beef and dairy cattle in New Zealand

8172. Fact

The human heart can create enough pressure that it could squirt blood at a distance of thirty feet

8173. Fact

More than 260,000 people have been killed by volcanic activity since 1700 AD.

8174. Fact

An elephant could carry up to 2 gallons of water in its trunk.

8175. Fact

The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.

8176. Fact

A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement

Element
Element : phosphorous
Symbol : p
Atomic no. : 15
Melting Point (deg c) : 44.15
Boiling Point (deg c) : 280.5
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