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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