Facts in "Other" Category
#3614 - Other Fact     0  Salt helped build the Erie Canal. A tax of 12 1/2 percent on New York State salt, plus tolls charged for salt shipments, paid for nearly half of the $7 million construction cost. |
| #3615 - Other Fact 0 Superman dates back to June 1938, when he appeared in Action Comics No. 1. Batman arrived on the scene one year later in Detective Comics No. 27, appearing May 1939. |
| #3616 - Other Fact 2 There is a house in Rockport, Massachusetts, built entirely of newspaper. The Paper House at Pigeon Cove, as it is called, is made of 215 thicknesses of newspaper. According to a 1995 survey, 7 out of 10 British dogs get Christmas gifts from their doting owners. |
| #3617 - Other Fact -2 The first drive-in service station in the United States was opened by Gulf Oil Company - on December 1, 1913, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |
| #3618 - Other Fact 0 The Pentagon building in Arlington, Virginia, has nearly 68,000 miles of telephone lines. |
| #3619 - Other Fact 7 The Cairo Opera House was destroyed by fire in 1970. The Cairo fire station was located inside the same building. |
| #3620 - Other Fact 2 The Curly Redwood Lodge is one of northern California’s most unique lodges. It was built from one curly redwood tree that produced 57,000 board feet of lumber. The tree - cut down in 1952 - was 18 feet 2 inches at the trunk. Curly redwood is unique because of the curly grain of the wood, unlike typical straight grained redwood. |
| #3621 - Other Fact 3 A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch. |
| #3622 - Other Fact 0 Ever wonder where the term "Work Smarter...Not Harder" originated? Allan F. Mogensen, the creator of Work Simplification, coined the phrase in the 1930s. The 1990s equivalent term is probably Business Process Reengineering. |
| #3623 - Other Fact 3 On dry, windy days, pollen can travel up to 500 miles. |
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