Facts in "Other" Category
#3584 - Other Fact     0  The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. |
| #3585 - Other Fact 1 A 17th-century Swedish philologist claimed that in the Garden of Eden God spoke Swedish, Adam spoke Danish, and the serpent spoke French. |
| #3586 - Other Fact 0 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. |
| #3587 - Other Fact -2 "Fine turkey" and "honeycomb" are terms used for different qualities and textures of sponges. |
| #3588 - Other Fact 2 In order to sell his sets of Shakespeare door-to-door, David McConnell offered free perfume to his customers. He realized the perfume was more popular and began selling cosmetics door-to-door. This began the company that grew into Avon. |
| #3589 - Other Fact 0 Some china is called "bone" china because some powdered animal bone is mixed in with the clay used to make this china: it gives the china a special kind of strength, whiteness, and translucency. |
| #3590 - Other Fact -1 The Colgate Company started out making starch, soap, and candles. |
| #3591 - Other Fact 1 Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class. |
| #3592 - Other Fact -4 The 3rd year of marriage is called the leather anniversary. |
| #3593 - Other Fact 0 World Tourist day is observed on September 27. |
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