Amazing Facts - 26

1. Eating eight strawberries will provide you with more Vitamin C than an orange

2. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".

3. Mosquitoes have teeth

4. To be born on Sunday was considered a sign of great sin during the Puritan times

5. The citrus soda "7 UP" was created in 1929. The original name of the popular drink was "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda", but it got changed to "7 UP."

6. The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day

7. Prosopagnosia refers to the inability to identify people by their faces. In severe cased prosopagnosia a person may not be able to identify themselves in a mirror

8. On November 29, 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."

9. An adult sheep can eat between 1 to 4 kg of food per day

10. In 1888, Hollywood was founded by Harvey and Daeida Wilcox, who named the city after their summer home in Chicago

11. Blood is such a good stain that Native Americans used it for paint

12. In 1876, the first microphone was invented by Emile Berliner.

13. "I am." is the second shortest complete sentence in the English language

14. On average, a person will spend about five years eating during their lifetime

15. 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

16. Many cancer patients that are treated with chemotherapy lose their hair. For some when the hair grows back, it can grow back a different colour, or be curly or straight

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