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9154. Fact
During the making of the the movie Fight Club, actor Brad Pitt chipped his tooth. However, he did not get his tooth capped until after the movie was done filming as he thought it would look better chipped for his character
9155. Fact
The first baseball game was broadcast in color on August 11, 1951 (Brooklyn Dodgers beat the Boston Braves 8-1)
9156. Fact
There are approximately 1300 species of scorpion but only 25 of them are deadly
9157. Fact
Only 3 words in the English language end in ceed: proceed, exceed, and succeed.
9158. Fact
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
9159. Fact
The strawberry is the only agricultural product that bears its seeds on the outside.
9160. Fact
If one pound of spaghetti was layed out in one noodle it would be 300 feet long.
9162. Fact
The ZIP in "ZIP code" means Zoning Improvement Plan.
9163. Fact
The number one cause of rabies in the United States are bats
9164. Fact
The state of Tennessee was known as Franklin before 1796
9165. Fact
First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer
9166. Fact
The average flea can jump up to 350 times its own length. To match that a human would have to jump 1,000 feet.
9167. Fact
In California, animals are banned from mating publicly within 1,500 feet of a tavern, school, or place of worship.
9168. Fact
Sales of Rolaids, Alka-Seltzer, and Tums jump 20% in December "
9169. Fact
It has been proven that feathers directly evolved from reptiles' scales. Therefore, birds came after reptiles.
9170. Fact
There was a molasses flood in Boston on January 15, 1919 that killed 21 people and injured 150 people
9171. Fact
Bette Midler, Barry Manilow and many other famous vocalists got their start in a New York City club called The Continental Baths.
9172. Fact
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the American Pie. (Thus the nameof the Don McLean song.)
9173. Fact
The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo.
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A bee could travel 4 million miles (6.5 million km) at 7 mph (11 km/h) on the energy it would obtain from 1 gallon (3.785 liters) of nectar.
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