Facts in "Other" Category
#3564 - Other Fact     2  According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction. |
| #3565 - Other Fact 3 Studebaker was the only major car company to stop manufacturing cars while making a profit on them. |
| #3566 - Other Fact -4 The first person selected as the Time Magazine Man of the Year - Charles Lindbergh in 1927. |
| #3567 - Other Fact 4 Kate "God Bless America" Smith sold more U.S. war bonds than anyone else during World War II. She sold $600 million worth. |
| #3568 - Other Fact 0 The Nike "swoosh" logo was designed by University of Oregon student Carolyn Davidson in 1964, four years after business undergraduate Phil Knight and track coach Bill Bowerman founded the company they originally called Blue Ribbon Sports. Ms. Davidson was paid $35 dollars for her design. |
| #3569 - Other Fact 3 If you need to dial the telephone and your dial is disabled, you can tap the button in the cradle. If, for example, you need to dial 911, you can tap the button 9 times, then pause, then tap once, then again. |
| #3570 - Other Fact 2 On June 10, 1958, a tornado was crashing through El Dorado, Kansas. The storm pulled a woman out of her house and carried her sixty feet away. She landed, relatively unharmed, next to a phonograph record titled "Stormy Weather." |
| #3571 - Other Fact 8 Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. |
| #3572 - Other Fact 0 The height and width of modern American battleships was originally determined by insuring they had to be able to go beneath the Brooklyn Bridge and through the Panama Canal. |
| #3573 - Other Fact -1 Nobody knows where the body of Voltaire is. It was stolen in the nineteenth century and has never been recovered. The theft was discovered in 1864, when the tomb was opened and found empty. |
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