10 GREAT FACTS A DAY - Part 229 (19/04/2014)

2281.            To make butter more attractive in colour, carrot juice was used by people in the
    Middle Ages.

2282.            Early hockey games allowed as many as 30 players a side on the ice.

2283.            Most fleas do not live past a year old.

2284.            It takes seven to ten days to make a jelly belly jellybean.

2285.            Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.

2286.            Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

2287.            The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body.
    The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.

2288.            There is enough concrete in the Hoover Dam to pave a two lane highway from
    San Francisco to New York.

2289.            Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

2290.            Every 238 years, the orbits of Neptune and Pluto change making Neptune at
    times the farthest planet from the sun.