If a cockroach breaks a leg it can grow another one (+ 9 more facts)
Daily Facts (21 May 2025)
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Today's facts:
The youngest actress to be nominated as best actress is Keisha Castle-Hughes who was nominated at just 13 years old
In the spring of 1975, a baby in Detroit fell 14 stories and landed on Joseph Figlock, who was walking below. A few years later it happened again. Figlock and both babies survived
In the United States, approximately 50 million people fish per year
There is a city called Smackover located in Arkansas
The majority of burglaries occur during the daytime when people are not home
The average number of pillowcases washed a day at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas is 15,000
If a cockroach breaks a leg it can grow another one
American novelist Mark Twain was the first known author to submit a typed manuscript
The country with the highest consumption of chocolate per capita is Switzerland, with 22 pounds per person, per year
A meteor has only destroyed one satellite, which was the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.
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On average, 350 squirts are needed from milking a cow to make a gallon of milk (+ 5 more facts)
Daily Facts (20 May 2025)
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Today's facts:
The Canandian province of New Brunswick had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839.
During the making of the the movie "Fight Club," actor Brad Pitt chipped his tooth. However, he did not get his tooth capped until after the movie was done filming as he thought it would look better chipped for his character
Oral-B were the first toothbrushes to go to the moon when they were aboard the Apollo 11 mission
The human heart can create enough pressure that it could squirt blood at a distance of thirty feet
The iron disulfide (Pyrite) is considered "fool's gold" because it looks very similar to gold.
On average, 350 squirts are needed from milking a cow to make a gallon of milk
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A group of kangaroos is called a mob (+ 7 more facts)
Daily Facts (19 May 2025)
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Today's facts:
Each honeycomb in Honeycomb cereal has seven holes
Rice flour was used to strengthen some of the bricks that make up the Great Wall of China
After being picked an orange cannot ripen
A group of kangaroos is called a mob
Colonel Sanders traveled over 250,000 miles a year visiting various parts of his Kentucky Fried Chicken Empire
An American chews an average of 300 sticks of gum in a year
At the White House, president John Adams was said to be the first to display fireworks there
The smile is the most frequently used facial expression. A smile can use anywhere from a pair of 5 to 53 facial muscles
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Smelling bananas can help a person lose weight (+ 6 more facts)
Daily Facts (18 May 2025)
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Today's facts:
The name of the famous snack "Twinkies" was invented by seeing a billboard in St. Louis, that said "Twinkle Toe Shoes."
The expression cooked "al dente" means "to the tooth." What this means is that the pasta should be somewhat firm, and offer some resistance to the tooth, but should also be tender
Bo Jackson set a Monday Night Football record by rushing for 222 yards in one game against the Seattle Seahawks, including a 91-yard TD run
In 1836, Mexican General Santa Anna held an elaborate state funeral for his amputated leg. updated
The Earth orbits the Sun at a speed of about 108,000 km per hour
Smelling bananas can help a person lose weight
Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star
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The human heart weighs less than a pound (+ 9 more facts)
Daily Facts (17 May 2025)
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Today's facts:
In China, people eat a bar of chocolate for every 1,000 chocolate bars eaten by the British
The USS Abraham Lincoln has five gymnasiums on the ship and a basketball league with 22 teams
Tomatos were once referred to as "love apples." This is because their was a superstition that people would fall in love by eating them
The oldest inhabited house in Scotland is the Traquair Castle. The castle has had 27 kings as visitors
The reason why golf balls have dimples on them is because it helps in the ball to move a farther distance by reducing drag
The best selling game in history for coin-operated machines is Pac-Man
The Hubble telescope is so powerful that it is like pointing a beam of light at a dime that is two hundred miles away.
The human heart weighs less than a pound
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
There are more Subway restaurants in Canada than there are McDonald restaurants
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