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9774. Fact
Prairie dogs are not dogs. A prairie dog is a kind of rodent.
9775. Fact
Coupons were introduced in 1894 when Asa Candler bought the Coca-Cola formula for $2,300 and gave people coupons that he had written out to receive a free glass of coke
9776. Fact
Scholars have named the highest number that's been counted, a googleplex.
9777. Fact
There are thirteen languages spoken by more than 100 million people. They are: Mandarin Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Malay-Indonesian, French, Japanese, German, and Urdu.
9778. Fact
The first NBA player to score 38,000 points was Kareem Abdul-Jabar in 1989.
9779. Fact
An African American chef in Albany, NY is thought to have been the inventor of potato chips sometime in 1865. Unfortunately, nobody knows his name.
9780. Fact
The Church of Scientology was founded in 1953, at Washington DC, by US science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard.
9781. Fact
The French philosopher, Voltaire, reportedly drank fifty cups of coffee a day.
9782. Fact
The surface speed record on the moon is 10.56 miles per hour. It was set in a lunar rover.
9784. Fact
First-cousin marriages are legal in Utah, so long as both parties are 65 or older.
9785. Fact
When a women is pregnant, her senses are all heightened
9786. Fact
One ragweed plant can release as many as a million grains of pollen in one day
9787. Fact
The real name of actress Whoopi Goldberg is Caryn Elaine Johnson
9788. Fact
The largest school in the world is City Montessori School in India and has over 25,000 students in grade levels ranging from kindergarten to college
9789. Fact
The only desert in Canada is located in Osoyoos, British Columbia
9790. Fact
Humans and cows have the same gestation period, which is about nine months
9791. Fact
There are more chickens than people in the world
9792. Fact
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar
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Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same way men do.
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