Facts in "Other" Category
#3634 - Other Fact     1  If the Earth was smooth, the ocean would cover the entire surface to a depth of 12,000 feet. |
| #3635 - Other Fact 1 Buckingham Palace consists of 600 rooms. |
| #3636 - Other Fact 2 Roman statues were made with detachable heads, so that one head could be removed and replaced by another. |
| #3637 - 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. |
| #3638 - Other Fact -1 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. |
| #3639 - Other Fact 1 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. |
| #3640 - Other Fact -1 The first drive-in service station in the United States was opened by Gulf Oil Company - on December 1, 1913, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |
| #3641 - Other Fact 1 The Pentagon building in Arlington, Virginia, has nearly 68,000 miles of telephone lines. |
| #3642 - Other Fact 3 The Cairo Opera House was destroyed by fire in 1970. The Cairo fire station was located inside the same building. |
| #3643 - Other Fact 3 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. |
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