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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.

8476. Fact
Studies indicate that listening to music is good for digestion

8477. Fact
Larger Stingrays have the power to drive their stingers or tail-spines through the hulls of wooden boats.

8478. Fact
In 1865, the U.S. Secret Service was first established for the specific purpose to combat the counterfeiting of money

8479. Fact
Amelia Earhart designed the first lightweight luggage for air travel.

8480. Fact
In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

8481. Fact
Every year approximately 3,000 people choke to death

8482. Fact
The General Lee cars used in the popular show The Dukes of Hazards were 1969 Dodge Chargers

8483. Fact
Sugar Bear (the mascot for Golden Crisps cereal) was born in 1963

8484. Fact
In Britain, failed suicides were hanged in the 19th century.

8485. Fact
The world's first speed limit regulation was in England in 1903. It was 20 mph.

8486. Fact
Ninety-nine percent of pumpkins sold in the United States are for the sole purpose of decoration.

8487. Animal Facts
When a toad is sick, it vomits up its own stomach, which hangs out of its mouth for a short time before it swallows it back down.

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