9876. Fact

Annually, an Australian eats 15 kg of bananas, which comes out to 27 meters of bananas

9877. Fact

Because of Davy Jones's popularity as a member of The Monkees, another young singer in London, also named David Jones, was forced to change his name to David Bowie.

9878. Fact

Pope John XXIII served as a sergeant in the Italian army during World War I.

9879. Fact

The number of births in India each year is greater than the entire population of Australia.

9880. Fact

More twins are born in the Western world than in the Eastern world

9881. Fact

Buttermilk does not contain any butter, but is a cultured milk product which is usually made from fat free milk

9882. Fact

It takes 72 minutes for the restaurant at the top of the CN Tower to make one revolution

9883. Fact

The kangaroo rat can cover ground at a rate of 17 feet per second. It can leap as much as 18 inches straight up and can switch directions at the peak of its jump.

9884. Fact

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

9885. Fact

Cheerios cereal was originally called Cheerioats.

9886. Fact

The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses.

9887. Fact

In ancient Egypt, doctors used jolts from the electric catfish to reduce the pain of arthritis

9888. Fact

Pretzels were originally invented for Christian Lent.

9889. Fact

Sharks have survived on earth for about 400 million years

9890. Fact

Mount Everest moves approximately 2.4 inches (10 cm) in a Northeasterly direction every year.

9891. Fact

The state sport of Maryland is Jousting.

9892. Fact

The Europeans first added chocolate to their coffee in the 1600's.

9893. Fact

The Montreal Canadians of the mid-1950s are the only team to win five straight Stanley Cup championships.

9894. Fact

There are 318,979,564,000 possible ways to play the first four moves per side in a game of chess.

9895. Fact

The highest recorded speed of a sneeze is 165 km per hour

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