9009. Fact

The Australian box-jellyfish has eight eyes

9010. Fact

Great Britain was the first country to issue postage stamps in 1840

9011. Fact

Only full-grown male crickets can chirp.

9012. Fact

The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.

9013. Fact

Six ounces of orange juice contains the minimum daily requirement for vitamin C.

9014. Fact

More than 100 professional cyclists participate in the Tour de France every year and the race is over 3,200 kilometers

9015. Fact

Six eight-stud Lego pieces can be combined 102,981,500 ways.

9016. Also known as

Original name : dadabhai naoroji
Also known as : grand old man of india; father of indian politics and economics..

9017. Fact

There are at least two words in the English language that use all of the vowels, in the correct order, and end in the letter Y: abstemiously and facetiously.

9018. Fact

Kim Basinger fears large crowds. She even locked herself in her house for 4 months because of this fear.

9019. Fact

Corned beef got its name because this beef was preserved with pellets of salt that were the size of corn kernels, which was also referred to as corns of salt

9020. Also known as

Original name : c.f. andrews
Also known as : deenabandhu.

9021. Fact

Pollen never deteriorates. It is one of the few natural substances that lasts indefinitely.

9022. Fact

Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes

9023. Fact

The average person ingests about a ton of food and drink each year.

9024. Fact

The numbers 172 can be found on the back of a US $5 bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln memorial.

9025. Fact

The G in 'g-string'stand for groin.

9026. Fact

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were the two left-handed Beatles.

9027. Fact

Using recycled aluminum cans and making news cans out of them saves 75% energy compared to making it from new material.

9028. Also known as

Original name : bal gangadhar tilak
Also known as : lokmanya; father of indian unrest.

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