Miscellaneous
Bizarre Fact #231:
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Roger Wrenn was the photographer who took the famous picture of General Douglas MacArthur wading ashore in the Philippines in October 1944. Bizarre Fact #232:
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Roman statues were made with detachable heads, so that one head could be removed and replaced by another. Bizarre Fact #233:
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Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer was conceived by author Robert May in 1939. Two other names he thought of before deciding on Rudolph were Reginald and Rollo. Bizarre Fact #234:
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Russians are buying skateboards from the U.S. - but not for recreational purposes. They see them as an answer to some of the country's transportation needs, because the boards are less expensive than bicycles and require little storage space. The first boards went to school instructors so they could train pupils how to ride them. Bizarre Fact #235:
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Salt helped build the Erie Canal. A tax of 12 1/2 percent on New York State salt, plus tolls charged for salt shipments, paid for nearly half of the $7 million construction cost. Bizarre Fact #236:
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Shakespeare's volume, Sonnets, contains 154 sonnets. Sonnets 1-126 are addressed to a male friend and sonnets 127-152 are addressed to a mysterious woman. Sonnets 153 and 154 fit in neither category. Bizarre Fact #237:
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Shampoo was first marketed in the USA in 1930 by John Breck, who was the captain of a volunteer fire department. Bizarre Fact #238:
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Sherlock Holmes archenemy was Professor Moriarty. Bizarre Fact #239:
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Since most people are right-handed, the holes on men's clothes have buttons on the right - to make it easier for men to push them through the holes. Well, that's easy, but aren't women mostly right-handed too? Women's buttons are on the OPPOSITE side so their maids can dress them. When buttons were first used, they were expensive and only wealthy women had them. Since a maid faces the woman she is dressing, having the buttons on the left of the dress places them on the maid's right. Bizarre Fact #240:
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Snoopy and Charlie Brown appeared together on the March 17th, 1967 cover of Life Magazine. The Apollo X astronauts took the duo into space in 1969.
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