8386. Fact

Until 1967 it wasn't illegal for Olympic athletes to use drugs to enhance their performance during competition.

8387. Fact

The sorcerer's name in Disney's Fantasia is Yensid, which happens to be Disney backwards.

8388. Fact

The first United States president to visit China was Richard Nixon

8389. Fact

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch' is the actual name of a village in northern Wales

8390. Fact

The property (ID, Facts) VALUES on the Monopoly game board are the same today as they were in 1935

8391. Fact

Oprah Winfrey was the first black woman to anchor a newscast in Nashville at WTVF-TV

8392. Fact

The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.

8393. Fact

If you need to remember pi, just count the letters in each word of the sentence: May I have a large container of coffee? If you get the coffee and are polite say: Thank you, get two more decimal places. (3.141592653...). Here is another sentance: How I wish I could calculate Pi. (3.141592)

8394. Fact

People of Ancient China believed that swinging your arms could cure a headache

8395. Fact

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, you would have produced enough energy to heat a cup of coffee.

8396. Fact

Poop is a verb.

8397. Fact

Termites do more damage in the U.S. ever year than all the fires, storms and earthquakes combined. They do an average of $750 million in damage annually

8398. Fact

Howard Taft was the first president to throw out the first pitch at a MLB game.

8399. Fact

If a person has two thirds of their liver removed through trauma or surgery, it will grow back to the original size in four weeks time

8400. Fact

The dromedary camel can drink as much as 100 litres of water in just 10 minutes

8401. Fact

The cross bow was invented by the Chinese and records of its usage goes back to as far as the Three Kingdom Period (220 a.d.-280 a.d.).

8402. Fact

Children are more allergic to cockroaches than they are to cats.

8403. Fact

The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change

8404. Fact

About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.

8405. Fact

Only 5 to 10 percent of cheetah cubs make it to adulthood

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