22 May 2014

10 GREAT FACTS A DAY - Part 257 (17/04/2014)






2561.            Snake is a delicacy in China.

2562.            In 1999, All Nippon Airlines, had one of its jets fully decorated with Pokemon
    characters from nose to tail on its exterior.

2563.            The Dead Sea has been sinking for last several years.

2564.            Uranus has 27 moons.

2565.            Actress Sally Field was paid $4,000 a week for her role in the TV show The Flying
    Nun.

2566.            More pollution is emitted from the average home compared to the average car.

2567.            The snow leopard protects itself from extreme cold when it sleeps by wrapping its
    3-foot-long tail around its nose.

2568.            Only 4% of babies are born on their actual due date.

2569.            In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile Services
    (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel
    assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.


2570.            A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.


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