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FACT-OF-THE-DAY ARCHIVE
"Our life is what our thoughts make it."
- Marcus Aurelius

MAY 2019


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5/1/19      A human skeleton renews itself completely every 10 years. -- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/2/19      DNA studies show that most North American wolves have coyote DNA.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/3/19      Monkeys can understand written numbers and can even count. They can also understand basic parts of arithmetic and even, in rare cases, multiplication.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/4/19      A man in Ohio suffers from a condition called "auto-brewery syndrome." One symptom of this ultra-rare disorder is that his body turns potato chips into alcohol in his stomach.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/5/19      Shakespeare added 1,700 words to the English language during his lifetime.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/6/19      In 1958, the American Medical Association approved the medical use of hypnosis.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/7/19      Left-handedness is twice as common in twins than in the general population.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/8/19      About 24 million children in America, or 1 out of every 3, live in homes without a father.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/9/19      Studies show that breastfed babies have lower levels of cholesterol as adults. Additionally, breast milk is rich in healthy cholesterol and fats, which help prevent adult heart and central nervous system diseases.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/10/19      In 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/11/19      In Medieval Europe, Catholic monks would often undergo "beer fasts" during the forty days of Lent. They ate no food, getting calories only from beer, which they called "liquid bread."- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/12/19      There are an estimated 85.4 million mothers in the United States.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/13/19      Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) is the only U.S. president who was also a licensed bartender. He was co-owner of Berry and Lincoln, a saloon in Springfield, Illinois.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/14/19      The perpetually happy "Smiley" face, with its yellow face and two black dot eyes, was invented in 1963. It was originally created to boost morale among employees of an insurance company.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/15/19      The youngest soldier in the Civil War was a 9-year-old boy from Mississippi. The oldest was an 80-year-old from Iowa. More than 10,000 soldiers serving in the Union Army were under 18 years old.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/16/19      James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other hand simultaneously.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/17/19      The Ganges River in India is one of the most polluted rivers in the world. The pollution includes sewage, trash, food, and animal remains. In some places the Ganges is septic, and corpses of semi-cremated adults or enshrouded babies drift down the river.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/18/19      Lake Balkhash in Kazakhstan is one of the largest lakes in the world. One part of the lake contains fresh water, and the other is made up of salt water.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/19/19      The world's tallest LEGO tower stands over 114 feet tall and is made from 550,000 bricks. Thousands of children helped build the tower in Milan, Italy.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/20/19      Because so many soldiers smoked cigarettes, WWI helped legitimate cigarettes by linking them to an icon of manliness and civic virtue.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/21/19      Unpopped popcorn kernels are called "spinsters" or "old maids." Quality popcorn should produce 98% popped kernels with under 2% being spinsters.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/22/19      The word "radish' is from the Proto-Indo-European word "wrad, meaning 'twig, root." First cultivated in China, radishes, along with onions and garlic were paid as "wages" to laborers who built the Ancient Egyptian Pyramids. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/23/19      An acid lake in the crater of Kawah-Idjen in Indonesia absorbs gases rising from the volcano, creating a lake so toxic it can burn through human flesh in minutes.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/24/19      Sigrid Undset, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, and Knut Hamsun are all Norwegians authors who have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Norway's most famous author, playwright Henrik Ibsen, did not.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/25/19      While awake, a human brain can generate enough energy to power a light bulb (between 10-23 watts).- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/26/19      Of the first 23 American astronauts sent into outer space, 21 were firstborns and the other two were only-children.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/27/19      In 1822, the average American ate 45 grams of sugar-which is the amount in one of today's 12 oz. sodas-every five days. In 2012, Americans consumed 765 grams of sugar every five days.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/28/19      Just as Pavlov could get a dog to salivate anytime it heard a bell, McDonald's can attract customers by its universal jingle and other consistent experiences, such as the same images, logos, and greetings.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/29/19      To produce enough beans to make one cup of coffee requires 37 gallons of water. By comparison, an apple takes 19 gallons, a banana 27, and a pair of leather shoes 4,400 gallons.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/30/19      Messages from the human brain travel along nerves at up to 200 miles an hour (322 km/h).- Provided by FactRetriever.com
5/31/19      Germans eat about 25 pounds (11.3 kg) of chocolate each year, which is twice as much as Americans.- Provided by FactRetriever.com


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