3 May 2014

10 GREAT FACTS A DAY - Part 241 (01/05/2014)






2401.            Boeing completed more than 15,000 hours of wind-tunnel testing on the first 747.

2402.            The most popular ethnic food in the United States is Italian food.

2403.            Parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls appeared for sale in the June 1, 1954 issue of the
    Wall Street Journal.

2404.            If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end
    because of the rate of reproduction.

2405.            The YKK that you see on zippers stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    which is the name of the founder of the zipper manufacturing company in Japan.

2406.            The theme song of the Harlem Globetrotters is "Sweet Georgia Brown."

2407.            27% of female lottery winners hid their winning ticket in their bras.

2408.            To lose one pound of fat, a person has to burn approximately 3,500 calories.

2409.            In 1969, the American side of Niagara Falls was stopped completely for several
    months.


2410.            The name for insect poop is frass.


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