8894. Fact

The 1st performance of Handel's Messiah was on April 13, 1742 at the New Music rooms in Fishamble St., Dublin. Because of the demand for space, the men were asked not to wear their swords and the ladies not to wear hooped skirts.

8895. Fact

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create explosion that is equal to an atomic bomb

8896. Fact

During the Alaskan Klondike gold rush, (1897-1898) potatoes were practically worth their weight in gold. Potatoes were so valued for their vitamin C content that miners traded gold for potatoes.

8897. Fact

If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

8898. Fact

Even though red roses looks the same, there are over 900 different types of red roses

8899. Fact

In Wyoming it is illegal to tattoo a horse with the intent of making it unrecognizable to its owner.

8900. Fact

The Christmas season begins after sunset on December 24th and lasts until January 5th. This is also known as the Twelve Days of Christmas

8901. Fact

In 1992, when EuroDisney first opened in France, the public beat some of the park characters because at the time most people had been against the park being built

8902. Also known as

Original name : k.m. cariappa
Also known as : kipper, grand old man of indian army..

8903. Also known as

Original name : kato ichire
Also known as : dr. robot..

8904. Fact

A Californian doctor has set the record of eating 17 bananas in two minutes.

8905. Fact

There are over three trillion craters on the moon, with some being having a diameter over three feet

8906. Fact

The name Aspirin was invented from A in acetyl chloride. The spir comes from spiraea ulmaria which is the plant that they got the salicylic acid from, and the in was used because back then it was popular to end the name of medicines with in.

8907. Fact

In Corpus Christi, Texas, raising alligators in your home is against the law.

8908. Fact

The first police force was established in Paris in 1667.

8909. Fact

Oscar Wilde and his friends came up the with the word dude. It came from the words duds and attitude.

8910. Fact

On average, Americans spend about 6 months of their lives waiting at red traffic lights.

8911. Fact

The octopus'testicles are located in its head.

8912. Fact

Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time

8913. Fact

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter e.

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