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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

8406. Fact
to squirt blood 30 feet. (O.M.G.!)

8407. Fact
An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

8408. Fact
The Philippines consist of 2,100 islands.

8409. Fact
The characters of Homer, Marge, Lisa, and Maggie were given the same first names as Simpsons creator Matt Groening's real-life father, mother, and two sisters.

8410. Fact
Approximately one out of four injuries by athletes involve the wrist and hand

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