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

8843. Fact

Cows can detect odors up to five miles away

8844. Fact

The total mileage driven by all U-Haul trucks in a year is enough to move a person from the Earth to the moon five times a day for an entire year

8845. Fact

Mules are genetically sterile. i.e. they cannot reproduce.

8846. Fact

If you wanted to count from one to one trillion and you started right now, counting twenty-four hours a day, it would take you about 31,688 years.

8847. Fact

Sir Isaac Newton, who invented Calculus, had trouble with names to the point where he would forget his brothers' names.

8848. Fact

Average people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.

8849. Fact

Peaches were once known as Persian apples

8850. Fact

The Canadian province of New Brunswick had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839

8851. Fact

Americans spend approximately $25 billion each year on beer.

8852. Fact

The three most valuable brand names on earth Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

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