Miscellaneous

Bizarre Fact #241:
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Snoopy stood on two legs for the first time in a 1958 strip.

Bizarre Fact #242:
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Some 30,000,000 Americans slave over crosswords in newspaper, journals, and paperback books.

Bizarre Fact #243:
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Some china is called "bone" china because some powdered animal bone is mixed in with the clay used to make this china: it gives the china a special kind of strength, whiteness, and translucency.

Bizarre Fact #244:
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Some people think that the stage musical Les Miserables runs a bit long, but it's a mere flash in time compared with one of the sentences in the novel on which it is based. Supposedly to make it easy to read, that 3-page, 823-word sentence is divided by 93 commas, 51 semicolons and 4 dashes.

Bizarre Fact #245:
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Sometimes, early telephone operators would get to know their customers so well, the customers would ask for a reminder call when it was time to remove a cake from the oven, leave the phone off the hook near their sleeping child when they left the house, hoping the operator would hear any cries of distress, request a wake up call before taking a long nap.

Bizarre Fact #246:
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St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers.

Bizarre Fact #247:
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Street Boulevard in Joplin, Missouri was named for Gabby Street, the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals in the early 1930's.

Bizarre Fact #248:
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Studebaker still exists, but is now called Worthington.

Bizarre Fact #249:
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Studebaker was the only major car company to stop manufacturing cars while making a profit on them.

Bizarre Fact #250:
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Success magazine recently declared bankruptcy.