28 December 2013

10 GREAT FACTS A DAY - Part 117 (28/12/2013)






1161.            Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times
     a day.

1162.            The first formal rules for playing the sport of baseball required the winning team to
     score 21 runs.

1163.            The University of Plymouth was the first university to offer a degree in surfing.

1164.            Retail sales for soft drinks in the United States in 2001 were more than sixty billion
     dollars.

1165.            Hens will produce larger eggs as they grow older.

1166.            In Quebec, Canada, an old law states that margarine must be a different colour
     than butter.

1167.            In the United States, about 33% of land is covered by forests.

1168.            Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.

1169.            Shridhar Chillal from India is known to have the record for the longest fingernails in
     the world, which were each at least three feet long.

1170.         In 1905, Chapman and Skinner in San Francisco invented the first portable electric
     vacuum.




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