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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

8463. Fact
Cows sweat through their noses.

8464. Fact
The smallest frog is the Brazilian baby frog, which is smaller than a dime

8465. Fact
The fastest speed a raindrop had reached when falling is seven miles per hour.

8466. Fact
You can make edible cheese from the milk of 24 different mammals.

8467. Fact
Over 30% of women discover their HIV status after their husbands are diagnosed.

8468. Fact
The country of Losotho is completely surrounded by the country of South Africa.

8469. Fact
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Do not try this at home...... maybe at work.)

8470. Fact
When a person dies, hearing is generally the last sense to go. The first sense lost is usually sight. Then follows taste, smell, and touch.

8471. Fact
Butterflies taste with their feet

8472. Fact
Owen Falls Lake is the largest man-made lake in the world

8473. Fact
Bob Hope and Billy Joel were both once boxers.

8474. Fact
James Madison, the fourth President of the United States, stood only five feet four inches tall and weighed less than one hundred pounds.

8475. Fact
The sea contains about 1/2 of the world's known animal groups.

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