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9241. Fact
The thing that hangs from the top of the beak of a turkey is called the snood

9242. Fact
The most widely culticated fruit in the world is the Apple.The second is the Pear.

9243. Fact
Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced

9244. Fact
The average person burns 26 calories when kissing for a minute.

9245. Fact
The liquid inside coconuts can be used as blood plasma substitutes.

9246. Fact
In German, eins and acht are the only numbers with their letters in alphabetical order.

9247. Also known as
Original name : napoleon bonaparte
Also known as : little corporol; man of density.

9248. Fact
When Christopher Columbus and crew landed in the New World they observed the natives using a nose pipe to smoke a strange new herb. The pipe was called a tabaka by the locals, hence our word tobacco.

9249. Fact
Born on November 2, 1718, British politician, John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, is credited with naming the 'sandwich.' He developed a habit of eating beef between slice of toast so he could continue to play cards uninterrupted.

9250. Fact
A sneeze can travel as fast as one hundred miles per hour

9251. Fact
More than 400,000 U.S. houses still lack indoor plumbing.

9252. Fact
An American cow called Fawn was not afraid of flying. In May 1963, she was swept up by a tornado and carried half a mile, only to land safely in another farmer's field. Five years later, another tornado carried her over a bus. She survived this too, and lived to the ripe old age of 25.

9253. Fact
Cataloupes are named after the gardens of Cantaloupe, Italy where some belive this melon was first grown

9254. Fact
There are only four words in the English language which end in

9255. Fact
A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.

9256. Fact
Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.

9257. Also known as
Original name : m.s. golwalkar
Also known as : guruji

9258. Fact
The snow leopard protects itself from extreme cold when it sleeps by wrapping its 3-foot-long tail around its nose

9259. Fact
The Earth orbits the Sun at a speed of about 108,000 km per hour

9260. Fact
The 1st US federal penitentiary building was completed at Leavenworth, Kansas in 1906.

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