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.

896. Fact

On a flight from antwerp to london in 1997, 21 of the passengers were 100 years old.

897. Fact

Most fish stay awake most of their lives. However, there are fish that sleep. They lean against a rock or stand vertically in the water.

898. Fact

A snail can sleep for three years.

899. Fact

Mosquitoes can track people up to 110 yards away by the substances in their breath.

900. Fact

The largest painting in the world is the battle at gettysburg, created by the american paul phillipoteaux and 16 of his assistants. It stands 68.8-feet high and is 410-feet wide.

901. Fact

The tyrannosaurus rex suffered from gout.

902. Fact

There are 336 dimples in a golf ball.

903. Fact

The most widely used language in the world is mandarin-chinese, the mother tongue for almost 900 million people. Only 332 million people have english as their mother tongue.

904. Fact

To produce 1 single gram of serum, you need poison from 150 cobra bites.

905. Fact

Alfred nobel's brother emil, died in an explosion in the laboratory where both brothers were performing experiments with explosive oils, the forerunner to dynamite.

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