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.

9783. Also known as

Original name : joan of arc
Also known as : maid of orleans

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

9793. Fact

A turtle can breathe through its butt.

9794. Fact

The longest word in the english language is pneaumonaultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis...It's a lung disease contracted from breathing in too much volcanic dust settlement.

9795. Fact

Isaac Newton, Peter Tchaikovsky, and Annie Lennox were all born on Christmas.

9796. Fact

Approximately 1 billion stamps are produced in Australia annually

9797. Fact

The crow is the smartest of all birds.

9798. Fact

When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not playing. Theyactually pass out from sheer terror.

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