Facts in "Other" Category
#3574 - Other Fact     2  Owing to a faulty cornerstone, the church of St. John in Barmouth, Wales, crashed in ruins a minute after it was finished. It was rebuilt, and the new edifice has endured to the present day. |
| #3575 - Other Fact 2 A car operates at maximum economy, gas-wise, at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour. |
| #3576 - Other Fact 2 A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift. |
| #3577 - Other Fact -2 A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile. |
| #3578 - Other Fact 2 To prevent some numbers from occurring more frequently than others, dice used in crap games in Las Vegas are manufactured to a tolerance of 0.0002 inches, less than 1/17 the thickness of a human hair. |
| #3579 - Other Fact -3 A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to a royal birth in Great Britain. |
| #3580 - Other Fact 3 The gesture of a nose tap, in Britain, means secrecy or confidentiality. In Italy, a tap to the nose signifies a friendly warning. |
| #3581 - Other Fact 3 Alcoholics are twice as likely to confess a drinking problem to a computer than to a doctor, say researchers in Wisconsin. |
| #3582 - Other Fact 2 In the game Monopoly, the most money you can lose in one travel around the board (normal game rules, going to jail only once) is $26,040. The most money you can lose in one turn is $5070. |
| #3583 - Other Fact -1 The Grand Coulee Dam in the state of Washington in the U.S., completed in 1942, was hailed in its time as a structure more massive than the Great Pyramid of Cheops. |
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