Fascinating Facts D (277 facts)
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- The Daddy long legs spider has venom to be used as a defensive mechanism. Don't worry though, coz ...
- Gottfried Daimler of Stuttgart, Germany, is generally regarded as the father of ...
- In North Dakota it is illegal to ...
- Pierre, the capital of South Dakota, is the only state ...
- Dall's porpoise never sleeps, elephants sleep two hours a day, ...
- Damascus, Syria is the oldest continuously inhabited city in ...
- Truck driving is the most dangerous ...
- The past-tense of the ...
- Four different people played the part of ...
- Santa's reindeer are: Dasher, Dancer, ...
- On February 9, 1993, Dateline NBC was forced to publicly apologize, and NBC president Michael Gartner ...
- The term dog days has nothing to do with dogs. It dates back to Roman times, when it was believed that Sirius, the Dog Star, added its heat to ...
- The slanted line that divides dates, ...
- The word tip dates back to the old London coffeehouses. Conspicuously placed brass boxes etched with the inscription, ...
- It is illegal for a mother to give her ...
- The father of Dave Matthews was one of the original fathers of the ...
- Dave Matthews relocated to the United States ...
- Eleanor Roosevelt wrote David O. Selznick to ask that her maid, ...
- David Sarnoff received the Titanic's distress signal and saved hundreds of passengers. He ...
- The period between midnight and dawn is the best time to look for shooting stars. On a normal ...
- If you were to go on vacation for eleven days, ...
- The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, ...
- The world's deadliest mushroom is the Amanita phalloides, the death cap. The five different poisons contained by the mushroom cause diarrhea and vomiting ...
- The Seven Deadly Sins are lust, pride, ...
- Tessenjutsu is a deadly martial art in ...
- 259200 people ...
- In 1920, Eugene Debs, a Socialist, received 920,000 votes for president ...
- Playboy debuted the triple-page centerfold in the ...
- An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 ...
- The South Pole was reached for the first time on 14 ...
- At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue ...
- The Declaration of Independence was written ...
- Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles ...
- Massachusetts law declares that ...
- A Blue Earth, Minnesota, law declares that no child under the age ...
- The only time the human population declined was in the years ...
- Jayne Mansfield decorated her Pink Palace by writing to 1,500 furniture and building suppliers and asking for free samples. She told the donors ...
- Napoleon took 14,000 French decrees and simplified them into a unified set of 7 laws. This was the first time in modern history that a nation's laws applied ...
- The deepest hole ever made in the world is in Texas. It is as deep as 20 ...
- The deepest spot in any ocean is the Mariana Trench. ...
- Fuzzy Zoeller defeated Tom Watson and Ed Sneed in ...
- The Romans defeated Hannibal's elephants after they found that the elephants were afraid of the smell of horse ...
- The official definition of a desert is any land that where ...
- If you were at 0° latitude and 0° ...
- At -40 degrees fahrenheit,a person ...
- Minus forty degrees Celsius is exactly ...
- The highest temperature ever recorded in the world was 136.4 ...
- The lowest temperature ever recorded in the world was ...
- In 1638, Sweden founded a colony in the New World ...
- In Delaware it is ...
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