8823. Fact

In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more that a hundred years before either moon was discovered.

8824. Fact

In the United States, about 33% of land is covered by forests

8825. Fact

As a defense mechanism, the North American Opossum closes its eyes and becomes totally limp. Basically it plays dead

8826. Fact

President George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart in 1782. It's a decoration to recognize merit in enlisted men and non-commissioned officers.

8827. Fact

The blackberry bush is also called the bramble.

8828. Also known as

Original name : m.f. robespierre
Also known as : the incorruptible.

8829. Fact

In Canada, the $1 and $2 come in the form of coins. The $1 is nicknamed a loonie because it contains a loon on it and the $2 is nicknamed the twonie because it is the equivalent of two loonies.

8830. Fact

The rate of condom breakage is between 0.4% and 2.3%, while the rate of condom slippage is between 0.6% and 1.3%.

8831. Fact

The full name of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin is actually Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly.

8832. Fact

Queen Elizabeth II has a rubber duck in her private bath with an inflatable crown.

8833. Fact

The average human scalp has 100,000 hairs

8834. Fact

Seven suicides are recorded in the Bible.

8835. Fact

Fourteen years before the Titanic sank, novelist Morgan Robertson published a novel called Futility. The story was about an ocean liner that struck an iceberg on an April night. The name of the ship in his novel was The Titan.

8836. Fact

You sit on the biggest muscle in your body, the gluteus maximus a.k.a the butt. Each of the two cheeky muscles tips the scales at about two pounds (not including the overlying fat layer). The tiniest muscle, the stapedius of the middle ear, is just one-fifth of an inch long.

8837. Fact

Close to 80% of people who watch the Super Bowl on television, only do so to view the commercials

8838. Fact

The eyes of the chameleon can move independently. It can see in two different directions at the same time

8839. Fact

In the movie Gandhi 300,000 extras appeared in the funeral scene. Of the 300,000, approximately 100,000 received a small fee, and the other 200,000 did it for free

8840. Fact

James Ramsey invented a steam-driven motorboat in 1784. He ran it on the Potomac River in an event witnessed by George Washington.

8841. Fact

The Miss America Contest was created in Atlantic City in 1921 with the purpose of extending the tourist season beyond Labor Day.

8842. Fact

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years

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