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3761/ During the chariot scene
in Ben Hur a small red car can be seen in the distance.
3762/ The longest Hollywood kiss
was from the 1941 film You're in the Army Now. It lasred three
minutes and three seconds.
3763/ The Beatles song A
Day in the Life ends with a note sustained for 40 seconds.
3764/ Jamie Farr (who played
Klinger on Mash) was the only member of the cast who actualy
served as a soldier in the Korean War.
3765/ Almonds are a member of
the peach family.
3766/ As much as 50 gallons of
Maple Sap are used to make a single gallon of Maple Sugar.
3767/ Bookkeeper is the only
word in the English language with three consecutive double
letters.
3768/ At Hancock Secondary School
in Mississippi there is actually a McDonalds in the High School.
3769/ There are 6,500 windows
in the Empire State Building and more than 10 million bricks.
3770/ H2O expands as
it freezes and contracts as it melts, displacing the exact
same amount of fluid in either state. So if the northern ice
cap did melt, it would cause absolutely no rise is the level
of the ocean.
3771/ Forty-eight million people
in the United States receive their drinking water from private
or household wells.
3772/ In a typical Canadian home,
45 per cent of water is used for the toilet, 28 per cent is
used for bathing and personal matters, 23 per cent is used
for laundry or dishes and four per cent is used for cooking
or drinking.
3773/ Turnips turn green when
sunburned.
3774/ The leech has 32 brains.
3775/ A 20 inch jack rabbit adult
can leap 20 feet in a single bound.
3776/ It would require an average
of 18 hummingbirds to weigh in at one ounce.
3777/ Bill Clinton was the first
left-handed President to serve two terms.
3778/ Due to a retinal adaptation
that reflects light back to the retina, the night vision of
tigers is six times better than that of humans.
3779/ Rattlesnakes gather in
groups to sleep through the winter. Sometimes up to 1,000
of them will coil up together to keep warm.
3780/ Kangaroo rats never drink
water. Like their relative the pocket mouse, they carry their
own water source within them, producing fluids from the food
they eat and the air they breathe.
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