>>>>  Some incredibly interesting facts to get you through the week: 
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>>>>
>>>>  111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 
>>>>
>>>>  If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the 
>>>>  air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the 
>>>>  air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the 
horse
>>>>  has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. 
>>>>
>>>>  No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and 
>>>>  purple.
>>>>
>>>>  Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without 
>>>>  killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get 
>>>>  fired."
>>>>
>>>>  Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village". 
>>>>
>>>>  There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. 
>>>>
>>>>  Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John 
>>>>  Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the 
>>>>  last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
>>>>
>>>>  "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. 
>>>>
>>>>  The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South 
>>>>  Pacific.  When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber 
>>>>  machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded 
>>into the
>>>>  fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the 
>>>>  whole 9 yards."
>>>>
>>>>  The most common name in the world is Mohammed. 
>>>>
>>>>  The word "samba" means "to rub navels together." 
>>>>
>>>>  The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672. 
>>>>
>>>>  The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. 
>>>>
>>>>  Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots. 
>>>>
>>>>  Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. 
>>>>  The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic 
>>>>  stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent
>>>>  accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too 
>>>>  sleepy to realize that *this* was the day of the changeover.
>>>>
>>>>  The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II 
>>>>  killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
>>>>
>>>>  Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice." 
>>>>
>>>>  In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam." 
>>>>
>>>>  Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson." 
>>>>
>>>>  More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes. 
>>>>
>>>>  The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from 
>>>>  Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye >>>>  
gouging."  Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified
>>>>  was to poke someone's eye out. 
>>>>
>>>>  A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. 
>>>>
>>>>  The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. 
>>>>
>>>>  Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them 
>>>>  looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
>>>>
>>>>  Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton. 
>>>>
>>>>  Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. 
>>>>
>>>>  The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law 
>>>>  which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything 
>>>>  wider than your thumb.
>>>>
>>>>  An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain. 
>>>>
>>>>  The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds