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heath — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:01:15 PST

Johannes Gutenberg is often credited as the inventor of the printing press in 1454. However, the Chinese actually printed from movable type in 1040 but later discarding the method. More Rodin died of frostbite in 1917 when the French government refused him financial aid for a flat, yet they kept his statues warmly housed in museums. The [...] Related posts:

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heath — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:00:17 PST

Usher holds the Star Search record for the longest note by a child: 12.1 seconds Paris Hilton has size 11 feet! “All those super cute shoes like Guccis and Monolos look like clown shoes on me” Colin Farrell says that Marilyn Monroe was the first woman he fell in love with. “I used to leave Smarties, the [...] Related posts:

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heath — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:58:53 PST

There is zero gravity at the centre of earth. Oceanography, the study of oceans, is a mixture of biology, physics, geology and chemistry. Earth orbits the sun at an average speed of 29.79 km/s (18.51 miles/sec), or about 107 000 km/h (about 67,000 miles/hour). Earth is the densest planet in the solar system and the only one not [...] Related posts:

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heath — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:57:34 PST

Scottish inventor John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of television in 1926 in Soho, London. Ten years later there were only 100 TV sets in the world. The first TV commercial was a 20-second ad for a Bulova clock, broadcasted by WNBT, New York during a game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia [...] Related posts:

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heath — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:56:48 PST

To win a gold disc, an album needs to sell 100,000 copies in Britain, and 500,000 in the United States. The Star-Spangled Banner became the US national anthem in 1931. Prior to that, it was My Country ‘Tis of Thee,” which had the same melody as Britian’s national anthem God Save the Queen, which is based [...] Related posts:

Random People Facts, New Years Day Facts, President Facts, Queen Facts, Thomas Jefferson Facts

heath — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:56:10 PST

On New Year’s Day, 1907, Theodore Roosevelt shook hands with 8,513 people. On 5th October 1974, four years, three months and sixteen days after Dave Kunste set out from Minnesota, he became the first man to walk around the world, having taken more than 20 million steps. Queen Isabella of Castile, who dispatched Christopher Columbus to find [...] Related posts:

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heath — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:55:22 PST

Theodore Roosevelt was the only U.S. president to deliver an inaugural address without using the word “I”. The first and only president to name his son George Washington was John Quincy Adams. Franklin Pierce was the first United States’ president to decorate an official White House Christmas tree. Herbert Hoover was the first president to have a telephone [...] Related posts:

Random Statistics Facts, Statistics Facts, Population Facts, Obesity Facts, Welfare Facts, Divorce Statistics

heath — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:54:42 PST

Half the world’s population earns about 5% of the world’s wealth. Almost 1,2 billion people are underfed – the same number of people that are overweight to the point of obesity. In the developed countries, the proportion of adults married has declined from 72% in 1970 to 60% in 1996. The chance of a first marriage ending [...] Related posts:

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heath — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:54:06 PST

The world’s longest nonfiction work is The Yongle Dadian, a 10,000-volume encyclopaedia produced by 5,000 scholars during the Ming Dynasty in China 500 years ago. When Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1912, 6 replicas were sold as the original, each at a huge price, in the 3 years before the [...] Related posts:

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heath — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:53:14 PST