8 June 2014

10 GREAT FACTS A DAY - Part 276 (05/06/2014)






2751.            Traditionally, wild cabbage was used as an aphrodisiac.

2752.            Tiger Woods was introduced to golf at nine months of age by his father.

2753.            A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to
    pavement.

2754.            It would take 29 million years for a car travelling 100 miles per hour to reach the
    nearest star.

2755.            Blue Jays can imitate the calls of hawks.

2756.            There are over three trillion craters on the moon, with some being having a
    diameter over three feet.

2757.            In India, a 9-year-old girl was "married" to a stray dog, which tribal custom
    requires in order to protect a child whose first tooth appears on the upper gum.

2758.            There is now an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter
    population of two hundred people.

2759.            In Canada, men are three times more likely than women to have seen a doctor
    in the last year.


2760.            The most expensive spice in the world is saffron.


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