10 GREAT FACTS A DAY - Part 209 (30/03/2014)

2081.            About 70 percent of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.

2082.            The oldest actor to win a Best Actor Oscar is Henry Fonda. He was 76 when he
    won it.

2083.            Babies who wear disposable diapers are five times more likely to develop diaper
    rash than those that wear cotton diapers.

2084.            The first lighthouse built in the USA was in Boston, MA in 1716.

2085.            The Snickers chocolate bar was invented in 1930.

2086.            When Nylons first went on sale in the United States in 1940, four million pairs were
    sold in only a few days.

2087.            On average, a man spends about five months of his life shaving.

2088.            Oprah Winfrey was the first black woman to anchor a newscast in Nashville at
    WTVF-TV.

2089.            Ever year, Americans spend close to $25 billion on beer.

2090.            In 1888, an Egyptian peasant discovered an estimated three hundred thousand
    mummified cats in Beni Hassan, Egypt. Of the cats that were not stolen once, the
    find was made public, the remaining mummified cats were shipped to Great Britain
    to be used as agricultural fertilizer.