8443. Fact

The longest acceptance speech in the history of the Oscars was by Greer Garson in 1942. She received an Oscar for Best Actress for the movie Mrs. Miniver, and her speech was five minutes and 30 seconds long

8444. Fact

As of 2006, more than one in eight people in the United States show signs of addiction to the internet.

8445. Fact

Instead of a birthday cake, many children in Russia are given a birthday pie

8446. Fact

Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray

8447. Animal Facts

A chameleon's tongue can be twice as long as its body, and must be kept curled to fit inside it.

8448. Fact

The states of Washington and Montana still execute prisoners by hanging.

8449. Fact

99% of the blueberries that are produced in the United States are produced in the state of Maine

8450. Fact

The longest Monopoly game ever played was 1,680 hours long, which is seventy straight days

8451. Fact

In Australia, there is no death penalty.

8452. Fact

The most popular ethnic food in the United States is Italian food

8453. Fact

The top downhill speed of the Ford Model T was 50 miles per hour.

8454. Fact

Inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver in 1836.

8455. Fact

The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters ispneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

8456. Fact

It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month or what we know today as the honeymoon.

8457. Fact

Lipogram refers to writing that does not have certain letter or letters

8458. Fact

In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a fifty pound rock. More than twenty people witnessed the ceremony

8459. Fact

Great Britain has the highest consumption of ice cream than any other European nation

8460. Fact

As part of the original design, the names of 72 French scientists and other famous people is imprinted on the sides of the Eiffel tower

8461. Animal Facts

The turkey vulture excretes faeces onto its legs to keep them cool.

8462. Fact

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors

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