10 GREAT FACTS A DAY - Part 144 (24/01/2014)

1431.            The elephant is the national animal of Thailand.

1432.            A Canadian Tour company offers a two-day course in igloo building.

1433.            Dairy cows can produce 20 to 35 gallons of saliva a day.

1434.            A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

1435.            When the Pez mint dispenser was first introduced it was meant to replace the
    activity of smoking.

1436.            Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones.

1437.            The speed of sound must be exceeded to produce a sonic boom.

1438.            A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on
    July 28, 1945.

1439.            Over 600,000 people died as a result of the Spanish influenza epidemic.

1440.            From all the vegetables, beets contain the most sugar.