Miscellaneous

Bizarre Fact #221:
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Out of all of the postage stamps in the United States with people's faces on them, there is not one that has the picture of someone alive.

Bizarre Fact #222:
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Owing to a faulty cornerstone, the church of St. John in Barmouth, Wales, crashed in ruins a minute after it was finished. It was rebuilt, and the new edifice has endured to the present day.

Bizarre Fact #223:
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Parker Brothers prints about 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money in one year.

Bizarre Fact #224:
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People generally say there are 365 days in a year. By a year, I mean this is the time period it takes the earth to travel around the sun: 365 days. Actually, however, it takes the Earth 365.25 days to make this trip. In other words, for every year we gain one-fourth of a day and every for years we gain an extra day. If nothing was done about this, our calendar would move backwards one full day every four years in relation to our seasons.

Bizarre Fact #225:
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Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian.

Bizarre Fact #226:
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Public typists work at typewriters charging about 14 cents per page. On a good day, a public typist earns about $3.50.

Bizarre Fact #227:
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Pudden'head Wilson, the title character in Twain's novel about switched babies, is regarded by the townspeople as a fool because of his hobby of collecting finger impressions on glass. His strange pasttime, however, leads to his identification of a murderer and his revelation of an incident where two babies, one the son of a slave and one the son of a slaveholder, were switched.

Bizarre Fact #228:
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Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity. -Albert Einstein (That one's for who the page is dedicated to...)

Bizarre Fact #229:
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Rebecca Elizabeth Marier was the first woman to graduate "top of the class" at West Point, the U.S. Military Academy. The rankings are based on academic, military, and physical accomplishments.

Bizarre Fact #230:
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Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.