Miscellaneous

Bizarre Fact #261:
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The car-making Dodge brothers Horace and John were Jewish, that's why the first Dodge emblem had a star of David in it.

Bizarre Fact #262:
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The Chinese national anthem is called "the march of volunteers."

Bizarre Fact #263:
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The Colgate Company started out making starch, soap, and candles.

Bizarre Fact #264:
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The color black moves first in checkers.

Bizarre Fact #265:
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The Curly Redwood Lodge is one of northern California’s most unique lodges. It was built from one curly redwood tree that produced 57,000 board feet of lumber. The tree - cut down in 1952 - was 18 feet 2 inches at the trunk. Curly redwood is unique because of the curly grain of the wood, unlike typical straight grained redwood.

Bizarre Fact #266:
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The diameter of the wire in a standard paper clip is 1 millimeter - or about 0.04 inch.

Bizarre Fact #267:
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The Dome could contain two Wembley Stadiums or the Eiffel Tower on its side. You could even fit the Great Pyramid of Giza inside it.

Bizarre Fact #268:
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The Dome is supported by 43 miles of high-strength cable which holds up 100,000 square meters of fabric.

Bizarre Fact #269:
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The Douglas DC-3 passenger airplane was the first to make a profit carrying people.

Bizarre Fact #270:
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The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.