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476. Adolf Hitler had planned to change the name of Berlin to Germania.

477. Adolf Hitler refused to shake Jesse Owens hands at the 1936 Olympics.

478. Adolf Hitler was Time's Man of the Year for 1938. (Source: Time.com)

479. Al Capone's brother was a town sheriff.

480. Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952.

481. Albert Einstein's last words were in German. Since the attending nurse did not understand German, his last words will never be known.

482. Alexander Graham Bell made a talking doll that said "mama", when he was a young boy in Scotland.

483. Alexander Graham Bell, never telephoned his wife or mother. They both were deaf.

484. Alexander Hamilton was shot by Aaron Burr in the groin.

485. Alexander the Great was an epileptic.

486. Alexander the Great was tutored by Aristotle.

487. Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly button.

488. America media mogul Ted Turner owns 5% of New Mexico.

489. American explorer Richard Byrd once spent five months alone in Antarctica.

490. An eighteenth-century German named Matthew Birchinger, known as the little man of Nuremberg, played four musical instruments including the bagpipes, was an expert calligrapher, and was the most famous stage magician of his day. He performed tricks with the cup and balls that have never been explained. Yet Birchinger had no hands, legs, or thighs, and was less than 29 inches tall

491. Aristotle thought that blood cooled the brain.

492. Artist Constantino Brumidi fell from the dome of the U.S Capitol while painting a mural around the rim. He died four months later.

493. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was "Moon."

494. Astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.

495. At 12 years old, an African named Ernest Loftus made his first entry in his diary and continued everyday for 91 years.

496. At a fair in Maine, a boy spit a watermelon seed 38 ft.

497. At age 16, Confucius was a corn inspector.

498. At age 47, the Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill's 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy's mother, age 46. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father's father-in-law and his own grandpa.

499. At age ninety, Peter Mustafic of Botovo, Yugoslavia, suddenly began speaking again after a silence of 40 years. The Yugoslavian news agency quoted him as saying, I just didn't want to do military service, so I stopped speaking in 1920; then I got used to it.

500. Attila the Hun was a dwarf. Pepin the Short, Aesop, Gregory the Tours, Charles 3 of Naples, and the Pasha Hussain were all less than 3.5 feet tall.

501. Augustus Caesar had achluophobia--the fear of sitting in the dark.

502. Australian Chemist, John Macadamia, discovered the Macadamia nut.

503. Benito Mussolini would ward off the evil eye by touching his testicles.

504. Benjamin Franklin lived at 141 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA.

505. Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey, not the eagle, to be the U.S. national symbol.

506. Benjamin Franklin was the first head of the United States Post Office.

507. Benjamin Franklin's peers did not give him the assignment of writing the Declaration of Independence because they feared that he would conceal a joke in it.

508. Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.

509. Bob Dole is 10 years older than the Empire State Building.

510. Boxing champion Gene Tunney taught Shakespeare at Yale University.

511. British politician, John Montagu, the 46th Earl of Sandwich, is credited with naming the sandwich. He developed the habit of eating beef between slices of toast so he could continue playing cards uninterrupted.

512. Buzz Aldrin was the first man to pee his pants on the moon.

513. By age 16, Andre the Giant (who's real name is Andre Russimof) was 6'10' tall. He had a rare glandular disorder that made his body continue to grow. Even as he died, his body was still growing.

514. Catherine de Medici was the first woman in Europe to use tobacco. She took it in a mixture of snuff.

515. Cathy Rigby is the only woman to pose nude for Sports Illustrated.

516. Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."

517. Charles Dickens never graduated from high school.

518. Charles Dickens was an insomniac, who believed his best chance of sleeping was in the center of a bed facing directly north.

519. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.

520. Christopher Columbus had blond hair.

521. Clark Gable used to shower more than 4 times a day.

522. Despite his great scientific and artistic achievement, Leonardo daVinci was most proud of his ability to bend iron with his bare hands.

523. Dr. Jekyll's first name is Henry.

524. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.

525. Eleanor Roosevelt ate three chocolate covered garlic balls every day for most of her adult life.

526. Eskimos never gamble.

527. Euclid is known as "The Father of Geometry."

528. Every photograph of an American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton.

529. Everytime Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.

530. French Astronomer Adrien Auzout had once considered building a telescope that was 1,000 feet long in the 1600s. He thought the magnification would be so great, he would see animals on the moon.

531. Galileo became totally blind just before his death. This is probably because of his constant gazing at the sun through his telescope.

532. Gandhi took dance and music lessons in his late teens.

533. Gandhi was born in 1869.

534. Genghis Khan started out as a goatherd.

535. George Lucas' first movie was THX 1138, a thriller about a futuristic police state filmed in 1971.

536. German chemist Hennig Brand discovered phosphorus while he was examining urine.

537. Hans Christian Anderson, creator of fairy tales, was word-blind. He never learned to spell correctly, and his publishers always had errors.

538. Harrison has a goat named His Whiskers.

539. Harry Houdini was the first person to fly an airplane in the continent of Australia.

540. Harry Truman's middle name was just 'S'. It isn't short for anything. His parents could not decide between two different names beginning with S.

541. Henry Ford believed in reincarnation.

542. Henry Ford flatly stated that history is bunk.

543. Hitler and Napolean both had only one testicle.

544. Hitler was claustrophobic. The elevator leading to his Eagles' nest in the Austrian Alps was mirrored so it would appear larger and more open.

545. Howard Hughes once made half a billion dollars in one day. In 1966, he received a bank draft for $546,549,171.00 in return for his 75% holdings in TWA.

546. Howdy Doody had 48 freckles.

547. Howdy Doody's twin brother was Double Doody.

548. Hrand Araklein, a Brink's car guard, was killed when $50,000 worth of quarters crushed on him.

549. Hugh Ward Cleaver Beaumont was an ordained minister.

550. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana.

551. In 1911, Bobby Beach broke nearly all the bones in his body after surviving a barrel ride over Niagara Falls. Sometime later in New Zealand, he slipped on a banana and died from the fall.

552. In 1921, Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics on his work with the photoelectric effect.

553. In 1968, a convention of beggars in Dacca, India, passed a resolution demanding that the minimum amount of alms be fixed at 15 paisa (three cents).

554. In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50-pound rock. The ceremony was witnessed by more than 20 people.

555. In 1982, the last member of a group of people who believed the Earth was hollow died.

556. Isaac Newton dropped out of school when he was a teenager.

557. Isaac Newton used to be a member of parliament.

558. Issac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

559. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was the most famous editor at Doubleday & Co.

560. Jeremy Bentham, a British philosopher who died in 1832, left his entire estate to the London Hospital provided that his body preside over its board meetings. His skeleton was clothed and fitted with a wax mask of his face. It was present at the meeting for 92 years.

561. JFK Jr. and Christine Amanapour of CNN were housemates at Brown University.

562. Jill St. John, Jack Klugman, Diana Ross, Carol Burnett and Cher have all worn braces as adults.

563. John Bellavia has entered over 5000 contests...and never won anything.

564. John D. Rockefeller was the first billionaire in the U.S.

565. John Hancock was the only one of fifty signers of the Declaration of Independence who actually signed it in July.

566. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

567. John Lennon's middle name was Winston.

568. John Quincy Adams took his last skinnydip in the Potomac on his seventy-ninth birthday.

569. John Travolta's "Saturday Night Fever" white suit auctioned off for $145,500. Judy Garlands red slippers for $165,000. Charlie Chaplins hat & cane for $211,500. Elvis' jacket for $59,700. John Lennon's glasses for $25,875

570. Johnny Carson used to host "The Tonight Show."

571. Joshua Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone in 189 It took him three years and 2 months.

572. Julie Nixon, daughter of Richard Nixon married David Eisenhower, grandson of Dwight Eisenhower. (Source: DiscoverySchool.com)

573. Lee Harvey Oswald's body tag was auctioned off for $6,600.

574. Leon Trotsky, the seminal Russian Communist, was assassinated in Mexico with an icepick.

575. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

576. Leonardo da Vinci invented the concept of the parachute, but his design was fatally flawed in that it did not allow air to pass through the top of the chute. Therefore, the chute would not fall straight, but would tilt to the side, lose it's air, and plummet.

577. Leonardo da Vinci invented the scissors.

578. Leonardo da Vinci spent twelve years painting the Mona Lisa's lips.

579. Li Hung-chang is the father of Chop Suey.

580. Lucy Ricardo's maiden name was McGillicudy.

581. Mae West was once dubbed 'The statue of Libido'.

582. Malcolm Lowry had pnigophobia--the fear of choking on fish bones.

583. Marcel Prousthave had a swordfish at home.

584. March 2 is Dr. Seuss' birthday.

585. Marco Polo was born on the Croatian island of Korcula (pronounced Kor-Chu-La).

586. Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died on July 4th, 1934 of radiation poisoning.

587. Mark Twain was born in 1835 when Halley's comet appeared. He died in 1910 when Halley's comet returned.

588. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs' Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

589. Michael Tolotos, who died at the age of 80, never saw a woman.

590. Michelangelo carved the famed Medici tombs in Florence.

591. Michelangelo died at the age of 88.

592. Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name (Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon in 1969).

593. More than 100 descendants of Johann Sebastian Bach have been cathedral organists.

594. Mozart is buried in an unmarked pauper's grave.

595. Mozart wrote the nursery rhyme "Twinkle twinkle, little star" at the age of five.

596. Mozart's real name was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart .

597. Mr. Mojo Risin is an anagram for Jim Morrison.

598. Napolean conducted his battle plans in a sandbox.

599. Napolean favored mathematicians and physical scientists but excluded humanists from his circle, believing them to be troublemakers.

600. Napolean had his boots worn by servants to break them in before he wore them.

601. Napoleon was terrified of cats.

602. No one knows where Mozart is buried.

603. Nobody knows where the body of Voltaire is. It was stolen in the nineteenth century and has never been recovered. The theft was discovered in 1864, when the tomb was opened and found empty.

604. Oliver Cromwell was hanged and decapitated two years after his death.

605. On a trip to the South Sea islands, French painter Paul Gauguin stopped off briefly in Central America, where he worked as a laborer on the Panama Canal.

606. Only person to win $64,000 Challenge and $64,000 Question: Dr. Joyce Brothers (subject is boxing).

607. Orson Welles is buried in an olive orchard on a ranch owned by his friend, matador Antonio Ordonez in Sevilla, Spain.

608. Orville Wright was involved in the first aircraft accident. His passenger, a Frenchman, was killed.

609. Peter the Great executed his wife's lover and forced her to keep her lover's head in a jar of alcohol in her bedroom.

610. Pluto, the astrological sign for death, was directly above Dallas, Texas when J.F.K was born.

611. Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 187

612. Pocahontas is buried along the Thames River.

613. Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz.

614. Rita Moreno is the first and only entertainer to have received all 4 of America's top entertainment industry awards: the Oscar, the Emmy, the Tony and the Grammy.

615. Robert E. Lee wore size 4 1/2 shoe.

616. Robert E. Lee, of the Confederate Army, remains the only person, to date, to have graduated from the West Point military academy without a single demerit.

617. Robert Ripley is the creator of "Ripley's Believe It Or Not!"

618. Roger Ebert is the only film critic to have ever won the Pulitzer prize.

619. Russian I.M. Chisov survived a 21,980 plunge out of a plane with no parachute. He landed on the steep side of a snow covered mountain.

620. Salvador Dali once arrived to an art exhibition in a limousine filled with turnips.

621. Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain smoked forty cigars a day for the last years of his life.

622. Sawney Beane, his wife, 8 sons, 6 daughters, and 32 grandchildren were a family of cannibals that lived in the caves near Galloway, Scotland in the early 17th Century. Although the total number is not known, it is believed they claimed over 50 victims per year. The entire family was taken by an army detachment to Edinburgh and executed, apparently without trial. [Source: Guinness Book of World Records]

623. Shakespeare spelled his OWN name several different ways.

624. Sherlock Holmes archenemy was Professor Moriarty.

625. Sherlock Holmes has a smarter brother named Mycroft.

626. Sherlock Holmes never said Elementary, my dear Watson.

627. Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.

628. Sir Issac Newton was an ordained priest in the Church of England

629. Sir Issac Newton was only 23 years old when he discovered the law of universal gravitation.

630. Sister Boom-Boom was a transvestite nun who ran for mayor of San Francisco in 1982. He/she received over 20,000 votes.

631. Socrates committed suicide by drinking poison hemlock.

632. Socrates left no writings of his own.

633. Sophia Loren's sister was once married to the son of the Italian dictator, Mussolini.

634. St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers.

635. Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm was noticeably shorter.

636. Susan Haswell Rowson was America's first best-selling novelist.

637. Sylvia Plath was a famous poet who killed herself at age 31 by sticking her head into a oven.

638. Talk show host Montel Williams had a nose job.

639. Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.

640. The 16th century astronomer Tycho Brahe lost his nose in a duel with one of his students over a mathematical computation. He wore a silver replacement nose for the rest of his life.

641. The czar of Russia was Nicholas II.

642. The first man to return safely from space was Yuri Gagarin.

643. The founder of JC Penny had the last name of Cash.

644. The German Kaiser Wilhelm II had a withered arm and often hid the fact by posing with his hand resting on a sword, or by holding gloves.

645. The Jolly Green Giant is 68 years old.

646. The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin.

647. The popular syndicated Advice columnists Dear Abbey and Anne Landers are actually identical twin sisters. Anne Landers was really named Ephy and Dear Abbey was really named Popo. (At least those were nicknames.) Anne Landers started her column first and eventually the unintended competition between the two (including a full length article in LIFE magazine) broke the two apart. They eventually reconciled. Anne Landers did not originate her role while Dear Abbey did.

648. The R in Dean R. Koontz's name stands for Ray.

649. The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" woman is Edith Fore.

650. The Red Baron's real name was Manfred Von Richtofen.

651. The world's record for most children to one mother was 69 children.

652. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

653. The world's youngest recorded parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

654. There are about 15,000 people in the U.S. over the age of 100.

655. There is a prison in Ossining, New York named "Sing Sing."

656. Thomas Edison had a collection of over 5,000 birds.

657. Thomas Edison once saved a boy from the path of an oncoming locomotive.

658. Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

659. Thomas Edison, the inventor of the lightbulb was afraid of the dark.

660. Two sisters in the U.S., Susan and Deborah weighed 205 and 124 pounds although they were only five and three years old respectively, in 1829.

661. Uri Geller, the professional psychic was born 20, 1946. As to the origin of his alleged powers, Mr. Gellar maintains that they come from a distant planet of Hoova.

662. Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to enter space.

663. Vincent Van Gogh committed suicide while painting Wheat Field with Crows.

664. Vincent Van Gogh decided to become an artist when he was 27 years old.

665. Walt Disney died of lung cancer.

666. Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.

667. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

668. Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.

669. Weird Al Yankovic received a bachelor's degree in architecture in 1981.

670. When Beethoven was a child, he made such a poor impression on his music teachers that he was pronounced hopeless as a composer.

671. When Einstein was inducted as an American, he attended the ceremony without socks.

672. When John Wilkes Booth leaped onto the stage after shooting the President, he tripped--on the American flag.

673. When Patty Hearst was kidnapped, she was watching the TV show "The Magician" starring Bill Bixby.

674. When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.

675. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

676. Wonder Woman has yellow stars all over her blue shorts.

677. World heavyweight boxing champion, Gene Tunney also lectured on Shakespeare at Yale University later in his life.

678. Worldwide, there are more statues of Joan of Arc than of anyone else. France alone has about 40,000 of them.

679. Writer Director Actor Albert Brooks real name is Albert Einstein

680. Writer Edgar Allan Poe and LSD advocate Timothy Leary were both kicked out of West Point.

681. WWF wrestler D'Lo Brown used to be a tax auditor.

682. 2,000 pounds of space dust and other space debris fall on the Earth everyday. (Source: N/A)

683. 99% of the solar system mass is concentrated in the sun. (Source: N/A)

684. A person from Glasgow is called a Glaswegian. (Source: N/A)

685. A quarter of Russia is covered by forest. (Source: N/A)

686. A sizable oak tree, during the typical growing season, gives off 28,000 gallons of moisture. (Source: N/A)

687. All gondolas in Venice, Italy must be painted black, unless they belong to a high official. (Source: N/A)

688. Although modern images of India often show poverty and lack of development, India was the richest country on earth until the time of British invasion in the early 17th Century. (Source: N/A)

689. American astronauts must be under 6 feet. (Source: N/A)

690. Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest waterfall, at 3,212 feet (979 m). (Source: N/A)

691. Antarctic means "opposite the Arctic." (Source: N/A)

692. Antarctica has no native population. (Source: N/A)

693. Antarctica is the only continent that does not have land areas below sea level. (Source: N/A)

694. Antarctica's residents are scientific and support staffs who usually stay no more than a year at a time. (Source: N/A)

695. Approximately 1/3 of the Earth's land surface is desert. (Source: N/A)

696. At latitude 60 degrees South you can sail all the way around the world. (Source: N/A)

697. At the nearest point, Russia and America are less than 4 km apart. (Source: N/A)

698. Australia is the richest source of mineral sands in the world. (Source: N/A)

699. Because of a large orbital eccentricity, Pluto was closer to the sun than Neptune between January 1979 and March 1999. (Source: N/A)

700. Because of heavy traffic congestion, Julius Caesar banned all wheeled vehicles from Rome during daylight hours. (Source: N/A)

701. Because of the salt content of the Dead Sea, it is difficult to dive below its surface. (Source: N/A)

702. Bird droppings are chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific. (Source: N/A)

703. Britain's shortest river is the Brun which runs through Burnley in Lancashire. (Source: N/A)

704. China's largest city is Shanghai. (Source: N/A)

705. City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong. (Source: N/A)

706. Cuba has virtually no illiteracy and is the only Latin American country to offer all its citizens free healthcare. (Source: N/A)

707. Cuba is the only island in the Caribbean to have a railroad. (Source: N/A)

708. Cyprus has a map on its flag. (Source: N/A)

709. Despite a population of over a billion, China has only about 200 family names. (Source: N/A)

710. Devon is the only county in Great Britain to have two coasts. (Source: N/A)

711. Dissolved salt makes up 3.5 percent of the oceans. (Source: N/A)

712. Dominica, Mexico, Zambia, Kiribati, Fiji and Egypt all have birds on their flags. (Source: N/A)

713. Drivers in Bangkok have priority over pedestrians at all times. (Source: N/A)

714. During most of the Earth's history, the North and South Poles have been free of ice. (Source: N/A)

715. Eighty percent of the world's ice is in Antarctica. (Source: N/A)

716. Emilio Marco Palma was the first person born in Antarctica in 1978. (Source: N/A)

717. England is smaller than New England. (Source: N/A)

718. Every cubic mile of seawater holds over 150 million tons of minerals. (Source: N/A)

719. Every year, Mexico City sinks about 10 inches. (Source: N/A)

720. French speaking residents of Belgium are called Walloons. (Source: N/A)

721. If the Earth was smooth, the ocean would cover the entire surface to a depth of 12,000 feet. (Source: N/A)

722. If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following: 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere and 8 Africans. (Source: N/A)

723. If you told someone that they were one in a million, you'd be saying there were 1,800 of them in China. (Source: N/A)

724. If you travel across the Russia, you will cross seven time zones. (Source: N/A)

725. In 1825, Upper Peru became Bolivia. (Source: N/A)

726. In 1845, ice shipped to Tallahassee cost $1 per pound. (Source: N/A)

727. In 1892, Italy raised the minimum age for marriage for girls to 12. (Source: N/A)

728. In 1956, there was an iceberg in the South Pacific larger than Belgium. (Source: N/A)

729. In 1990, Engineers digging a railway tunnel under the English Channel broke through the last dividing rock and joined Britain to mainland Europe for the first time since the Ice Age. (Source: N/A)

730. In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals. (Source: N/A)

731. In Brazil, Christmas is celebrated with fireworks. (Source: N/A)

732. In downtown Lima, Peru, there is a large brass statue dedicated to Winnie-the-Pooh. (Source: N/A)

733. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. (Source: N/A)

734. In France, there's a place called Y. (Source: N/A)

735. In January and February, the average temperature in the high Arctic is -29 F. (Source: N/A)

736. In May 1948, Mt. Ruapehu and Mt Ngauruhoe, both in New Zealand, erupted simultaneously. (Source: N/A)

737. In Norway, all the red phone-booths are preserved by law. It used to be over 9000, now it's just 36. All of them will now be saved for the future generations. (Source: N/A)

738. In space you cannot cry because there is no gravity to make the tears flow. (Source: N/A)

739. In the Andes, time is often measured by how long it takes to smoke a cigarette. (Source: N/A)

740. In the Arctic, the sun sometimes appears to be square. (Source: N/A)

741. In the Caribbean, there are oysters that can climb trees. (Source: N/A)

742. In the Durango desert, in Mexico, there's a creepy spot called the Zone of Silence. You can't pick up clear TV or radio signals. And locals say fireballs sometimes appear in the sky. (Source: N/A)

743. In the kingdom of Bhutan, all citizens officially become a year older on New Year's Day. (Source: N/A)

744. In the Scottish Hebrides, an island is defined as being an island only if it is big enough to sustain 1 sheep. (Source: N/A)

745. In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs. (Source: N/A)

746. It's so hot in the Sahara Desert that rain evaporates before it even hits the sand. (Source: N/A)

747. Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. (Source: N/A)

748. Jupiter's Great Red Spot is 25,000 miles wide. (Source: N/A)

749. Kathmandu is the capital of Nepal. (Source: N/A)

750. Kilauea (in Hawaii) is generally regarded as the world's most active volcano. (Source: N/A)

751. Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world. (Source: N/A)

752. Largest man-made lake in the world: Lake Mead. (Source: N/A)

753. Li is the family name for over 87 million people in China. (Source: N/A)

754. Little America is located in Antarctica. (Source: N/A)

755. Los Angeles and San Francisco become 2.5 inches closer together each year because they are on opposite sides of the San Andreas fault. (Source: N/A)

756. Lost time in traffic costs American businesses up to $100 billion per year. (Source: N/A)

757. Mongolia is the largest landlocked country. (Source: N/A)

758. More than 75% of all the countries in the world are north of the equator. (Source: N/A)

759. More then 25% of the world's forest are in Siberia. (Source: N/A)

760. Mount Everest was named after Sir George Everest who was the surveyor-general of India from 1830 to 184 He was the first person to accurately survey the peak's height. (Source: N/A)

761. Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa. (Source: N/A)

762. New York City has 570 miles of shoreline. (Source: N/A)

763. New York City is nicknamed the Big Apple after an early swing dance that originated in South Carolina called "The Big Apple." (Source: N/A)

764. New York was the first state to require the licensing of motor vehicles. (Source: N/A)

765. New Zealand is the only country that contains every type of climate in the world. (Source: N/A)

766. New Zealand was named after Abel Tasman's home district, Zealand, in the Netherlands. (Source: N/A)

767. North America only has one diamond mine in Arkansas. (Source: N/A)

768. Norway contains the largest ice-field in Europe. (Source: N/A)

769. Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older. (Source: N/A)

770. Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in our solar system. All the moons of the solar system are named after Greek and Roman mythology, except the moons of Uranus which are named after Shakespearean characters. (Source: N/A)

771. On dry, windy days, pollen can travel up to 500 miles. (Source: N/A)

772. Only five countries in Europe touch only one other: Portugal, Denmark, San Marino, Vatican City, and Monaco. (Source: N/A)

773. Paris was the first home to the Statue of Liberty. (Source: N/A)

774. Persia changed its name to Iran in 1935. (Source: N/A)

775. Pittsburgh was named for a British prime minister. (Source: N/A)

776. Portion of land in the US is owned by the government: 1/3 (Source: N/A)

777. Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States. (Source: N/A)

778. Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, is heated by underground hot springs. (Source: N/A)

779. Rome is called "The Eternal City." (Source: N/A)

780. Scotland was once called Caledonia by the Romans. (Source: N/A)

781. Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean language. (Source: N/A)

782. Since the 1930’s the town of Corona, CA has buried – and lost – all 17 of its time capsules. (Source: N/A)

783. Soweto in South Africa was derived from SOuth WEst TOwnship. (Source: N/A)

784. Spain’s biggest source of income is tourism. (Source: N/A)

785. St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran a saloon there. (Source: N/A)

786. Tasmania has the cleanest air in the inhabited world. (Source: N/A)

787. Thailand used to be called Siam. (Source: N/A)

788. The Amazon rainforest produces half the world's oxygen supply. (Source: N/A)

789. The average iceberg weighs 20,000,000 tons. (Source: N/A)

790. The average life-span for a person in Sierra Africa is 41 years. (Source: N/A)

791. The bat on the Bacardi symbol is there because the soil where the sugar cane grows is fertile from the excessive guano (bat droppings). (Source: N/A)

792. The Boston University Bridge is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane. (Source: N/A)

793. The channel between England and France grows 300mm each year. (Source: N/A)

794. The city of Dallas is known as "The Big D." (Source: N/A)

795. The city of Istanbul straddles two separate continents, Europe and Asia. (Source: N/A)

796. The city of Mt. Vernon, Washington, grows more tulips than the entire country of Holland. (Source: N/A)

797. The city of Paris is 49 degrees north latitude. (Source: N/A)

798. The country of Costa Rica does not have an army. (Source: N/A)

799. The country with the biggest percentage of female heads of household is Botswana. (Source: N/A)

800. The deadliest volcano eruption was that of Krakatau (Indonesia) in 1883. (Source: N/A)

801. The deepest canyon in low relief territory is Hell's Canyon, dividing Oregon and Idaho. It plunges 7,900 ft from the Devil Mountain down to the Snake River. United States The deepest canyon in the USA is Kings Canyon, East Fresno, CA, which runs through Sierra and Sequoia National Forests. The deepest point, that measures 8,200 ft, is in the Sierra National Park Forest section of the canyon. (Source: N/A)

802. The East Alligator River in Australia's Northern Territory, was misnamed. It contains crocodiles not alligators. (Source: N/A)

803. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are useable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies. (Source: N/A)

804. The fastest moon in our solar system circles Jupiter once every seven hours - traveling at 70,400 miles per hour. (Source: N/A)

805. The first city in modern history to reach 1 million people was London in 181 (Source: N/A)

806. The German Bundestag, or Parliament, has 672 members and is the world's largest elected legislative body. (Source: N/A)

807. The Geysir ('gusher') near Mt Hekla in south-central Iceland, from which all others have been named, spurts on occasions to 180 ft, while the adjacent Strokkur, reactivated by drilling in 1963, spurts at 10-15 min intervals. (Source: N/A)

808. The Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure visible from space. (Source: N/A)

809. The greatest measured water discharge was an estimated 740,000-1,000,000 gallons by the Giant Geyser, also in Yellowstone National Park. However, this estimate made in the 1950s, was only a rough calculation. (Source: N/A)

810. The inhabitants of Monaco are known as 'Monegasques'. (Source: N/A)

811. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 67 (Source: N/A)

812. The island of Nauru is composed mainly of bird droppings. (Source: N/A)

813. The Kingdom of Bhutan lies in the eastern Himalayas. (Source: N/A)

814. The largest city in Africa is Cairo in Egypt. (Source: N/A)

815. The largest country in Africa is the Sudan. (Source: N/A)

816. The largest landlocked body of water in the world is the Caspian sea. (Source: N/A)

817. The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze. (Source: N/A)

818. The Mediterranean Sea is the world's largest sea. (Source: N/A)

819. The most remote island in the world is Tristan da Cunha, which is above the subantarctic zone. (Source: N/A)

820. The national flower of Greenland is the Willow herb. (Source: N/A)

821. The nearest galaxy to our own is Andromeda. (Source: N/A)

822. The Nile river flows North. (Source: N/A)

823. The Nullarbor in Nullarbor Desert in Western Australia is a Latin name; Null=No, Arbor=Trees. (Source: N/A)

824. The number of births in India each year is greater than the entire population of Australia. (Source: N/A)

825. The official language of India is Hindi. (Source: N/A)

826. The official, neutral name of Switzerland, which has multiple official languages, is the Latin Confederation Helvetica, or the Helvetic Confederation, thus the CH on license plates, stickers and e-mail addresses. (Source: N/A)

827. The oldest exposed surface on Earth is New Zealand's south island. (Source: N/A)

828. The oldest public park in the U.S. is Boston Common. (Source: N/A)

829. The only married couple to fly together in space were Jan Davis and Mark Lee, who flew aboard the Endeavour space shuttle from Sept 12-20, 1992. (Source: NASA)

830. The Philippines consist of 7,100 islands. (Source: N/A)

831. The population of Mexico is over 90 million people. (Source: N/A)

832. The Red Cross is called the Red Crescent in Arab countries. (Source: N/A)

833. The roads on the island of Guam are made with coral. Guam has no sand. The sand on the beaches is actually ground coral. When concrete is mixed, the coral sand is used instead of importing regular sand from thousands of miles away. (Source: N/A)

834. The Sahara desert has the highest sand dunes. (Source: N/A)

835. The Sahara desert is expanding half a mile south every year. (Source: N/A)

836. The second largest continent is Africa. (Source: N/A)

837. The smallest 'country' in the world to have its own top-level domain name is Norfolk Island, off the coast of Australia. (Source: N/A)

838. The smallest country in Central America is El Salvador. (Source: N/A)

839. The smallest volcano in the world is Mount Taal. (Source: N/A)

840. The South Pole is colder than the North Pole. (Source: N/A)

841. The Sphinx sits on guard over the Great Pyramids. (Source: N/A)

842. The Suez Canal is 100.76 miles long. (Source: N/A)

843. The Sun has a diameter of 864,000 miles. (Source: N/A)

844. The Sun looks 1600 times fainter from Pluto than it does from the Earth. (Source: N/A)

845. The Sun travels at a speed of 155 miles per second, but it still takes 230 million years for it to complete a single revolution of the galaxy. (Source: N/A)

846. The surface speed record on the moon is 10.56 miles per hour. It was set in a lunar rover. (Source: N/A)

847. The tallest mountain in Australia is Mount Kosiusk, only 7,310 feet tall. (Source: N/A)

848. The tree dictated on the Lebanese flag is a Cedar. (Source: N/A)

849. The Tropic of Capricorn passes through Australia. (Source: N/A)

850. The volume of the Earth's moon is the same volume of the Pacific Ocean. (Source: N/A)

851. The Vosges Mountains are located in France. (Source: N/A)

852. The Waimangu (Maori 'black water') geyser, in New Zealand, erupted to a height in excess of 1,500 ft in 1904, but has not been active since it erupted violently at 6:20 A.M. on 1 April 1917 and killed four people. (Source: N/A)

853. The word "ozone" originates from the Greek word "ozo" which means "I smell." (Source: N/A)

854. The world's highest city is Lhasa, Tibet. (Source: N/A)

855. The world's warmest sea is the Red Sea. (Source: N/A)

856. There are 7 stars in the Big Dipper. (Source: N/A)

857. There are hundreds of gold mining labor camps in Arctic Siberia. An estimated 3 million Russians have died working in these camps. (Source: N/A)

858. There are more stars in the sky then grains of sand on earth. (Source: N/A)

859. There are small ice-free patches of land in Antarctica. (Source: N/A)

860. There is a city called Rome in every continent. (Source: N/A)

861. There is now an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of 200. (Source: N/A)

862. Timbuktu is located in the country Mali. (Source: N/A)

863. Tongeren is the oldest town in Belgium. (Source: N/A)

864. Two objects have struck the earth with enough force to destroy a whole city. Each object, one in 1908 and again in 1947, struck regions of Siberia. Not one human being was hurt either time. (Source: N/A)

865. Up to three thousand species of trees have been cataloged in a square mile of the Amazon jungle. (Source: N/A)

866. Venice is known as "The Bride of the Sea." (Source: N/A)

867. We are in the middle of an ice age. Ice ages include both cold and warm periods; at the moment we are experiencing a relatively warm span of time known as an interglacial period. Geologists believe that the warmest part of this period occurred from 1890 through 1945 and that since 1945 things have slowly begun freezing up again. (Source: N/A)

868. Worldwide, about 40 square miles of land are transformed into desert each day. (Source: N/A)

869. Zaire is the world leader in cobalt mining, producing two-thirds of the world's cobalt supply. (Source: N/A)

870. Zanzibar is known as "Spice Island." (Source: N/A)

871. About one-tenth of the earth's surface is permanently covered with ice. (Source: N/A)

872. At the equator the Earth spins at about 1,000 miles per hour. (Source: N/A)

873. Earth was named after Terra, the Roman goddess of the land. (Source: N/A)

874. Earth's atmosphere is, proportionally, thinner than the skin of an apple. (Source: N/A)

875. The Earth flattens at the poles and bulges at the equator. (Source: N/A)

876. The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it. (Source: N/A)

877. The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons. (Source: N/A)

878. The Earth, in its history, has been hit by at least one million meteors. (Source: N/A)

879. The night sky appears full of stars, but actually 3,000 stars are visible to the naked eye. (Source: N/A)

880. The pressure at the center of the Earth is 27,000 tons per square inch. (Source: N/A)

881. The surface area of the Earth is 197,000,000 square miles. (Source: N/A)

882. The world's worst earthquake occurred in 1556 in China killing approximately 830,000 people. (Source: N/A)

883. There are over 50,000 earthquakes every year. (Source: N/A)

884. Hawaii's Mount Waialeale is the wettest place in the world - it rains about ninety per cent of the time, about 480 inches per annum. (Source: N/A)

885. Hell's Gate, in Kenya, is a dramatic gorge curved through red, volcanic rock, which was once the outlet for a lake that embraced both Lake Naivasha and Nakuru. The gorge is beloved for rock climbers, while the whole area is renowned for it's bird life. There are a few mammals in the gorge itself. Various birds can be found here, such as Secretary bird, Anteater chat, Schalow's Wheatear and several species of larks. Of more interest are the breeding birds of the gorge. Large numbers of swifts breed here like Nyanza and little Swifts plus Ruppel's vultures. (Source: N/A)

886. High Point, North Carolina is known as "The Furniture Capital of the World" and boasts of a building that looks like a giant chest of drawers with argyle socks hanging out of one drawer. (Source: N/A)

887. Ho-Ho-Kus, a small town in New Jersey, is the only town in the United States Of America that has two dashes in it's name. (Source: N/A)

888. Honolulu boasts the only royal palace in the U.S. (Source: N/A)

889. Honolulu is closer to Japan than it is to New York City. (Source: N/A)

890. Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego. (Source: N/A)

891. If Texas were a country it's GNP would be the fifth largest of any country on Earth. (Source: N/A)

892. If you could cut out the United States, its center of gravity would be Friend, Nebraska. (Source: N/A)

893. In 1513, Ponce DeLeon, was seeking the mythical "Fountain of Youth," and discovered Florida , claiming it for Spain. Later, Florida was sold to the United States in 1819. (Source: N/A)

894. In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers. (Source: N/A)

895. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles. (Source: N/A)

896. In the Great Seal of the U.S., the eagle grasps 13 arrows and an olive branch. (Source: N/A)

897. In the United States there are more 2nd streets than there are 1st streets, and Main street is not the most common; Pine is. (Source: N/A)

898. In Vermont, the ratio of cows to people is 10:1 (Source: N/A)

899. Iowa has more independent telephone companies than any other state. (Source: N/A)

900. It snows more in the Grand Canyon than it does in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Source: N/A)

901. Lexington is the largest city in the state of Kentucky. (Source: N/A)

902. Michigan has more registered bowlers than any other state in the USA. (Source: N/A)

903. Michigan was the first state to plow its roads and first to adopt the yellow dividing line. (Source: N/A)

904. Montgomery is the birthplace of music great Nat King Cole, pop singers Clarence Carter and Toni Tenille, Metropolitan Opera singer Nell Rankin, and blues legend Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton. (Source: N/A)

905. New York City has the most skyscrapers than any other city in the world with 140. A skyscraper is any building that exceeds 152 metres in height. (Source: N/A)

906. New York City was briefly the U.S. capital from 1789 to 1790. (Source: N/A)

907. San Francisco has the two steepest streets in the U.S. (Source: N/A)

908. Texas is the only state that is allowed to fly its flag at the same height as the U.S. flag. (Source: N/A)

909. Texas was once a country. (Source: N/A)

910. The 8 stripes on the Hawaiian flag stand for the 8 main islands of Hawaii. (Source: N/A)

911. The dirt road that General Washington and his soldiers took to fight off General Clinton during the Battle of Monmouth was called the Burlington Path. (Source: N/A)

912. The exact geographic center of the United States is near Lebanon, Kansas. (Source: N/A)

913. The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world. (Source: N/A)

914. The longest U.S. highway is Route 20 which is over 3,200 miles. (Source: N/A)

915. The nickname of Florida is the "Sunshine State." (Source: N/A)

916. The only borough of New York City that isn't an island or part of an island is the Bronx. (Source: N/A)

917. The population of Texas is 18 million, not including the 16 million cattle. (Source: N/A)

918. The Saginaw River in Michigan is the shortest river in the world. (Source: N/A)

919. The state fruit of New York is the apple. (Source: N/A)

920. The state of Florida is bigger than England. (Source: N/A)

921. The U.S. paid $7.2 million for Alaska in 1867. (Source: N/A)

922. The USA bought Alaska from Russia for 2 cent an acre. (Source: N/A)

923. There is a town in California called Tarzana. It was named after Tarzan's creator, Edgar Rice Burroughs. (Source: N/A)

924. There is a town in the state of Tennesse that is named "Difficult." The residents could not agree on a name for the town. (Source: N/A)

925. There is city in Arizona called Naughty Girl Meadow. (Source: N/A)

926. There is currently a town in South Carolina named "96" although it is spelled out. It's zip code is 29666. (Source: N/A)

927. Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee. (Source: N/A)

928. Using satellite-surveying techniques, scientists have determined that Los Angeles, California is moving east. At a rate estimated to be about one-fifth on an inch per year, the city is moving closer to the San Gabriel Mountains. (Source: N/A)

929. West Virginia and Maryland have no natural lakes. (Source: N/A)

930. 203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S. (Source: N/A)

931. 26 billion dollars in ransom has been paid out in the U.S. in the past 20 years. (Source: N/A)

932. 277 medical institutions in the United States operate an organ transplant program. (Source: N/A)

933. 60% of all U.S. potato products originate in Idaho. (Source: N/A)

934. 7.5 tons of gold is used each year in the United States to make class rings. (Source: N/A)

935. 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S. (Source: N/A)

936. 97% of all paper money in the U.S. contain traces of cocaine. (Source: N/A)

937. According to the recruitment code of the U.S. Navy, anyone bearing an obscene and indecent tattoo will be rejected. (Source: N/A)

938. Akron, Ohio is known as the "Rubber Capital" of the world. (Source: N/A)

939. Alaska has 29 volcanoes. (Source: N/A)

940. Alaska is the only state without a state motto. (Source: N/A)

941. All of the cobble stones that used to line the streets in New York were originally weighting stones put in the hulls of Belgian ships to keep an even keel. (Source: N/A)

942. Almost 10% of Texas is covered by forest which includes four national and five state forests. (Source: N/A)

943. America once used a five-cent bill. (Source: N/A)

944. Americans pay over $30,500 federal, state and local taxes every second. (Source: N/A)

945. Baltimore, MD is the home to the first shopping center ever built. (Source: N/A)

946. Because of its size, the Pentagon operates much like a small city; it has it's own shopping mall, bank, power plant, water and sewage facilities, fire station, police force, fast food restaurants and a mayor. (Source: N/A)

947. Before 1863, postal service in the United States was free. (Source: N/A)

948. Chicago is closer to Moscow than to Rio de Janeiro. (Source: N/A)

949. Christmas became a national holiday in the U.S. in 1890. (Source: N/A)

950. City with the highest per capita viewership of television evangelists: Washington DC (Source: N/A)

951. Columbia University is the second largest land owner in New York City after the Catholic Church. (Source: N/A)

952. Don't know why, but people living in mountain states eat 30% more cookies than other people. (Source: N/A)

953. Every 45 seconds, a house catches fire in the U.S. (Source: N/A)

954. From 1702 until 1709, the Governor of New York was a spendthrift transvestite. (Source: N/A)