Facts in "Other" Category
#3464 - Other Fact     -1  Approximately sixty circus performers have been shot from cannons. At last report, thirty-one of these have been killed. |
| #3465 - Other Fact -1 The Boeing 767 aircraft is a collection of 3.1 million parts from 800 different suppliers around the world: fuselage parts from Japan, center wing section from Southern California, flaps from Italy. |
| #3466 - Other Fact 12 On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10. |
| #3467 - Other Fact 10 Parker Brothers prints about 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money in one year. |
| #3468 - Other Fact 4 Calvin and Hobbes: Hobbes originally had pads on his hands and feet but Bill Waterson (the creator) found them too distracting and removed them. |
| #3469 - Other Fact 0 It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace". |
| #3470 - Other Fact 13 In the name of art, Chris Burden arranged to be shot by a friend while another person photographed the event. He sold the series of pictures to an art dealer. He made $1750 on the deal, but his hospital bill was $84,000. |
| #3471 - Other Fact -6 In Britain’s House of Commons, the government and opposition sides of the House are separated by two red lines. The distance between the lines is two swords’ lengths, a reminder of just how seriously the Brits used to take their politics. |
| #3472 - Other Fact -10 The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared. |
| #3473 - Other Fact -3 The diameter of the wire in a standard paper clip is 1 millimeter - or about 0.04 inch. |
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