Fun Facts - A Guide to your inner know it all 1.0


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This eBook contains around 1,500 fun facts arranged in the Alpbabetical order.

A Sample of some of the Fun Facts found in this App:

- Babies who wear disposable diapers are five times more likely to develop diaper rash than those that wear cotton diapers.
- Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
- Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
- Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen.
- Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold for $7.5 million.
- Buttermilk does not contain any butter.
- By partially filling saucers with vinegar and distributing the saucers around a room, you can eliminate odors.
- Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
- Children are more allergic to cockroaches than they are to cats!
- Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
- Common pesticides such as roach, termite, and flea insecticide can be found in the bodies of majority of Americans.
- Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
- Duracell, the battery-maker, built parts of its new international headquarters using materials from its own waste.
- During World War II, Uncle Ben's was the exclusive supplier of rice to the U.S. Armed Forces.
- Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.
- Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
- Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpastes.
- From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
- Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones.
- George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
- In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
- In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
- In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans every year.
- Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
- Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do.
- It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States.
- It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
- King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie.
- Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.
- Left-handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgment and fast reaction, compared to right-handed individuals.
- Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
- Malcolm X's original name is Malcolm Little.
- Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
- Medical research has found substances in mistletoe that can slow down tumor growth.
- Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
- Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
Fun Facts - A Guide to your inner know it all



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