9585. Fact

Women are four times more likely to have foot problems than men

9586. Fact

The way that prostitutes got the nickname Hooker was because of a general of the Civil War. General Hooker would keep a number of prostitutes to follow his army and keep his men's moral up. The prostitutes were referred to as Hooker's brigade.

9587. Fact

Common pesticides such as roach, termite and flea insecticide can be found in the bodies of majority of Americans

9588. Fact

The Lemon shark grows about 24,000 new teeth a year. A new set of teeth grow approximately every 14 days

9589. Fact

Sharks can sense a drop of blood from a mile away

9590. Fact

The only countries in the world with one syllable in their names are Chad, France, Greece, and Spain.

9591. Fact

In the Middle Ages, peacocks and swans were sometimes served at Christmas dinners

9592. Fact

The magnetic North Pole shifts by about 7 meters a day.

9593. Fact

If the information contained in the DNA could be written down, it would fill a 1000 volume encyclopedia.

9594. Fact

Dry cereal for breakfast was invented by John Henry Kellogg at the turn of the century

9595. Fact

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out

9596. Fact

Neck ties were first worn in Croatia.

9597. Fact

Celery does make you lose calories, it doesn't have a special chemical to do so but it has no calories so the chewing burns the calories burned.

9598. Fact

The human body has over 600 muscles, 40% of the body's weight.

9599. Fact

The longest recorded duration of a total solar eclipse was 7.5 minutes.

9600. Fact

Parma ham is only Parma ham if it is made in the Parma region of Italy. The British chain supermarket Asda, made and packaged its own Parma ham and was successfully sued by the real Parma ham people (Parma Ham Trade Association)

9601. Fact

In Australia, a dust-devil is called a willy-willy

9602. Fact

With winds of 50 miles per hour, The Statue of Liberty sways three inches and the torch sways five inches

9603. Fact

In Chicago, it is illegal to take a french poodle to the opera.

9604. Fact

Every single hamster in the United States today comes from a single litter captured in Syria in 1930

Bharat Ratna
Bharat Ratna : aruna asaf ali
posthumous, freedom fighter
Year : 1997
Region : west bengal.      .. More >>