1 November 2013

10 GREAT FACTS A DAY - Part 60 (01/11/2013)






591.  In the United States, more than 4.2 million couples live together that are not married.

592.  
Bill Gates house was partially designed using a Macintosh computer.

593.  
The male howler monkey of Central and South America is the noisiest land animal, which
         can be heard clearly from a distance of ten miles away.

594.  
Nerve cells can travel as fast as 120 metres per second.

595.  
It is said that grapefruit got its name because it grows like grapes in clusters.
         One cluster can have up to 25 grapefruits.

596.  
Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with
         him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes.

597.  
An average adult produces about half a litre of flatulent gas per day, resulting in an
         average of about fourteen occurrences of flatulence a day.

598.  
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

599.  
Peanut butter is an effective way to remove chewing gum from hair or clothes.

600.  
The longest kiss on record lasted 30 hours and 45 minutes. Dror Orpaz and Carmit
         Tsubara recorded it on April 5, 1999 at a kissing contest held in Tel Aviv, Israel.



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