Facts in "Other" Category
#3594 - Other Fact     0  Liberace Museum has a mirror-plated Rolls Royce; jewel-encrusted capes, and the largest rhinestone in the world, weighing 59 pounds and almost a foot in diameter. |
| #3595 - Other Fact 3 Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old. |
| #3596 - Other Fact 7 Every queen named Jane has either been murdered, imprisoned, gone mad, died young, or been dethroned. |
| #3597 - Other Fact -1 Four of the first six presidents of the U.S. were 57 years old when they were inaugurated. No other presidents have been inaugurated at that age. |
| #3598 - Other Fact -2 Shampoo was first marketed in the USA in 1930 by John Breck, who was the captain of a volunteer fire department. |
| #3599 - Other Fact 2 Vellum, a fine-quality writing parchment, is prepared from animal skin: lambs, kids, and very young calves. Coarser, tougher types are made from the skins of male goats, wolves, and older calves. Vellum replaced papyrus and was superseded by paper. |
| #3600 - Other Fact 1 Catherine de Medici was the first woman in Europe to use tobacco. She took it in a mixture of snuff. |
| #3601 - Other Fact 0 In 1970, "MCI" stood for "Microwave Communications, Inc." No longer used as an acronym, it now stands alone. |
| #3602 - Other Fact 1 The orange things that crossing guards, construction and high way workers, etc. wear is called a retroreflective vest, or "International Orange". |
| #3603 - Other Fact -1 Roger Wrenn was the photographer who took the famous picture of General Douglas MacArthur wading ashore in the Philippines in October 1944. |
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