Miscellaneous
Bizarre Fact #291:
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The largest crossword puzzle ever published had 2631 clues across and 2922 clues down. It took up 16 sq. feet of space. Bizarre Fact #292:
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The Las Vegas MGM Grand's 170,000-square-foot casino is larger than the playing field at Yankee Stadium. It contains more than 3,000 gaming machines. Bizarre Fact #293:
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The Lord's Prayer appears twice in the Bible, in Matthew VI and Luke XI. Bizarre Fact #294:
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The Luxor Hotel (shaped like an Egyptian Pyramid) is 36 stories tall, required more than 150,000 cubic yards of concrete, six thousand construction workers and 18 months to build. It takes a specially designed window washing device 64 hours to clean the sides of the pyramid, which is covered by 13 acres of glass. The Luxor atrium is the world's largest and could comfortably hold nine Boeing 747 airplanes. Bizarre Fact #295:
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The Metro subway of Washington, DC, has several really deep stations. Its Forrest Glen station - in the Maryland suburbs - is 196 feet deep and has the longest subway escalator in the Western Hemisphere. But MOST of the subway stations in Leningrad are deeper than that. Bizarre Fact #296:
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The name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box is Bingo. Bizarre Fact #297:
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before. Bizarre Fact #298:
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The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Bizarre Fact #299:
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The National Lighter Museum in Guthrie, Oklahoma has nearly 20,000 pieces, representing over 85,000 years of lighters and fire starters. The only museum of its kind in the world, it is dedicated to collecting and preserving the history of the evolution of lighters. Bizarre Fact #300:
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The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle, is the Picayune Intellegence.
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