10 GREAT FACTS A DAY - Part 187 (08/03/2014)

1861.            The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.

1862.            There are approximately 2,700 different species of mosquitoes.

1863.            Colonel Sanders original white suit was auctioned off for $80,000 in February 2002

1864.            EPCOT stands for "Experimental Prototype City Of Tomorrow."

1865.            The reason why tattoos do not vanish even though we shed our skin is because the
    dye is injected deeper into the dermis part of the skin. It is only the epidermis that
    we shed.

1866.            Over 170,000 Indians from 210 tribes live in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest.

1867.            Cashew nuts contain oil in the shell that is very irritating to the skin.

1868.            A caterpillar grows roughly 27,000 times its size when it first emerges as an egg.

1869.            Lightning strikes the Empire States Building about seven times a year.

1870.            Snake venom is ninety percent protein.