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9391. Fact
The New York Yankees have won the most champoinships (26 times) in their respected sport (MLB, NBA, NHL, NFL) for any professional sports team.

9392. Fact
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight, and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated

9393. Fact
In 1888, an Egyptian peasant discovered an estimated three hundred thousand mummified cats in Beni Hassan, Egypt. Of the cats that were not stolen once, the find was made public, the remaining mummified cats were shipped to Great Britain to be used as agricultural fertilizer

9394. Fact
There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada

9395. Fact
The first man-made object to circle the earth was Sputnik I, launched in 1957.

9396. Fact
When the volcano Krakatoa off the Java islands exploded in 1883, it was so loud that it woke some people up in South Australia

9397. Fact
The four highest grossing movies of the 1940s were all animated motion pictures by Disney (Bambi, Pinnochio, Fantasia, and Cinderella).

9398. Fact
On average, 150 couples get married in Las Vegas each day

9399. Fact
The expression Tying the Knot comes from an old Roman custom where the brides clothes were tied up all in knots and the groom was supposed to untie the knots

9400. Fact
The spider used in the 2002 movie Spider-Man was a Steatoda spider, not a black widow. The spider was given anaesthesia, and was then painted blue and red

9401. Fact
The second best selling game of all time is Jenga. Jenga is a Swahili word, meaning to build.

9402. Fact
The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract its claws.

9403. Fact
The coldest capital city in the world is Ulaan Bator, Mongolia.

9404. Fact
A crocodile can run up to a speed of 11 miles per hour

9405. Fact
TYPEWRITER, is one of the longest words that can be made using the letters only one row of the keyboard

9406. Fact
There are more plastic lawn flamingos in the US than real ones.

9407. Fact
Rembrandt died broke. A friend had to come up with the $5.20 it cost to bury the great master.

9408. Fact
In 1983, a Japanese artist, Tadahiko Ogawa, made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of ordinary toast

9409. Fact
Ted Turner owns about 2% of New Mexico.

9410. Fact
Every photograph of the first American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton

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