Fact of the Day

[Bob]

Nitrites are chemical additives used to preserve and add flavoring to most lunch meats, including cold cuts and hot dogs. Once in the body, they react with body chemicals and turn into cancer-causing carcinogens. Americans eat more than 20 billion hot dogs per year. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
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[Bob]

Insomnia is almost twice as common in women as it is in men. - Provided by RandomHistory.com

 

[Bob]

Sun bears have the longest claws of any bear. They also have the longest tongues, which can reach 9.8" long. - Provided by RandomHistory.com

 

[Bob]

The worst volcanic disaster of the twentieth century is considered to be the eruption of Mt. Pelee in 1902 on the island of Martinique in the Caribbean which killed 30,121 people. Only two people survived: a shoemaker living on the edge of the island and a prisoner who had been locked in a dungeon cell with thick stone walls. - Provided by RandomHistory.com

 

[Bob]

The technical term for a cat's hairball is a "bezoar." - Provided by RandomHistory.com

 

[Bob]

Over 83% of adults who stuttered as children said they had been teased or bullied. Approximately 71% said that bullying happened at least once a week. - Provided by RandomHistory.com

 

[Bob]

Scientists report that the severely outdated Safe Drinking Water Act (1974) cannot adequately prevent Americans from being exposed to serious health dangers in their drinking water. - Provided by RandomHistory.com

 

[Bob]

The probability of a woman giving birth to a baby girl instead of a baby boy increases significantly the nearer the mother lives to the equator. While the cause of this gender selection is unknown, scientists believe the constant sunlight hours and abundant food supply in tropical regions may favor female births. - Provided by RandomHistory.com

 

[Bob]

While the equatorial diameter of Earth is 27 miles greater than its diameter measured from pole to pole, the two diameters for Venus are virtually the same, making the planet an almost perfect sphere. - Provided by RandomHistory.com

 

[Bob]

Approximately 11% of all Americans aged 65-74 have diabetes. About 20% of those over 75 years old have diabetes, and nearly half of them are unaware they have the disease. - Provided by RandomHistory.com