876. Fact

A mule is the spawn of a donkey and a mare.

877. Fact

Coulfophobia is the technical term for a fear of clowns.

878. Fact

Star trek, the famous tv series, was not a hit when if first started. After only two seasons, the tv network wanted to cancel it.

879. Fact

Wrigley's, the american chewing gum, was the first product in the world with a bar code.

880. Fact

If you suffer from polydactyl, you were born with more than 10 fingers and toes.

881. Fact

The nobel prizewinner marie curie was the first woman allowed to teach at the university of sorbonne in paris.

882. Fact

A lightning bolt will heat up the air around it to about 3,000272c (5432 degrees fahrenheit).

883. Fact

In an earlier version of the script for the film alien, ripley was supposed to be played by a man.

884. Fact

During the first world war, josef stalin got out of serving his military service because of his deformed feet. He had two toes that were grown together.

885. Fact

A dragonfly can fly backwards as fast as it can fly forwards.

886. Fact

The pitohuis, a group of birds in new guinea, have poisonous feathers and skin. When predators catch one of these birds, they instinctively spit it out.

887. Fact

If you love coffee and drink 100 cups in four hours,you will probably die from caffeine poisoning.

888. Fact

Before michael caine and cher changed their names, they answered to maurice micklewhite and cherilyn sarkisian la piere.

889. Fact

Only two of your mouth muscles are required for creating a smile unless you consider the many muscles around your eyes as well.

890. Fact

Men and women button their shirts differently. A practice that comes from olden times when royal men dressed themselves but the women used chambermaids who buttoned their blouses for them from the front.

891. Fact

The language with the greatest number of words is english. It contains more than 455,000 active words and 700,000 dead words.

892. Fact

Raw asparagus is slightly poisonous.

893. Fact

Arnold schwarzenegger received a cool 15 million dollars for his part in terminator 2, where he only spoke 700 words. That's $21,429 per word. The classic phrase "hasta la vista, baby" earned him $85,716.

894. Fact

Ghandi's full name wasn't mahatma gandhi. His real name was mohandas karamchand gandhi. Mahatma was a title of honour which means large spirit.

895. Fact

The tools that were used to fix up jack napier (jack nicholson) after his chemical bath in batman are the same tools used by the sadistic dentist, orin scrivello (steve martin), in the 1986 film little shop of horrors.

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In Scotland, Irn-Bru is a soft drink that is more popular than Coca-Cola. When McDonalds opened in Glasgow and did not sell Irn-Bru, it was considered an insult, and the restaurant was subsequently boycotted.      .. More >>