Facts in "Other" Category
#3644 - Other Fact     -1  A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch. |
| #3645 - Other Fact -1 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. |
| #3646 - Other Fact -1 On dry, windy days, pollen can travel up to 500 miles. |
| #3647 - Other Fact 3 Built in only 16 months between 1941 and 1942, the Pentagon is only 71ft tall, yet it has 5 floors, 17.5 miles of corridors, 150 stairways, 280 restrooms, 685 drinking fountains, 7,748 windows and workers replace more than 250 lightbulbs each day. |
| #3648 - Other Fact 1 At its peak in 1943, the Pentagon had a working population of about 33,000. Today about 23,000 employees work in the building. |
| #3649 - Other Fact 1 The National Lighter Museum in Guthrie, Oklahoma has nearly 20,000 pieces, representing over 85,000 years of lighters and fire starters. The only museum of its kind in the world, it is dedicated to collecting and preserving the history of the evolution of lighters. |
| #3650 - Other Fact -1 The U.S standard railroad gauge (distance between rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. |
| #3651 - Other Fact 1 The U.S. Library of Congress has compiled a 232-source bibliography on the subject of when, properly speaking, centuries roll over. Almost all of the sources agree that the twentieth century does not end until December 31, 2000. |
| #3652 - Other Fact -1 There are 6,272,640 square inches in an acre. |
| #3653 - Other Fact 2 There are 63,360 inches in a mile. |
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