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.

8488. Fact

The five most frequently used letters in the English alphabet are, in order, E T A I S.

8489. Fact

Armadillos can be house broken.

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