9518. Fact

All racehorses in the U.S. celebrate their birthday on January 1st

9519. Fact

The earth is the most densest planet in the solar system, and is the only planet not named after a god.

9520. Fact

Footprints of astronauts who landed on the moon should last at least 10 million years since the moon has no atmosphere.

9521. Fact

Human beings can't smell or taste a substance that is not soluble. On a dry tongue, sugar has no taste. In a dry nose, the smell of a flower would not be noticed. Anything to be smelled must float in the air.

9522. Fact

The United Parcel Service shipped the killer whale Keiko (star of Disney movie Free Willy) from Mexico City to Newport, Oregon in 1998

9523. Fact

NASCAR stands for National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing

9524. Fact

Botanically a rhubarb is a vegetable. It was changed to a fruit in 1947 by a U.S. Custom Court

9525. Fact

The first subway system in America was built in Boston, Massachusetts in 1897

9526. Fact

Every day, the Hubble telescope transmits enough data to fit 10,000 standard computer disks

9528. Also known as

Original name : andrei d. sakharov
Also known as : father of the (soviet) hydrogen bomb

9529. Fact

Bill Russell was the first black head coach of a major league pro sports team

9530. Fact

MS-DOS was originally calle QDOS and was bought of the author by Microsoft for a small fee. The rest is history

9531. Fact

It takes only 8 minutes for sunlight to travel from the sun to the earth, which also means, if you see the sun go out, it actually went out 8 minutes ago

9532. Fact

The USS Abraham Lincoln has five gymnasiums on the ship and a basketball league with 22 teams

9533. Fact

Fourteen people die each day from asthma in the United States

9534. Fact

Olympic badminton rules say that the bird has to have exactly fourteen feathers.

9535. Fact

Cinderella is known as Rashin Coatie in Scotland, Zezolla in Italy, and Yeh-hsien in China

9536. Fact

The male gypsy moth can smell the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.

9537. Fact

Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.

9538. Fact

Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. As far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer.

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