Facts in "Other" Category
#3474 - Other Fact     6  People generally say there are 365 days in a year. By a year, I mean this is the time period it takes the earth to travel around the sun: 365 days. Actually, however, it takes the Earth 365.25 days to make this trip. In other words, for every year we gain one-fourth of a day and every for years we gain an extra day. If nothing was done about this, our calendar would move backwards one full day every four years in relation to our seasons. |
| #3475 - Other Fact 0 Public typists work at typewriters charging about 14 cents per page. On a good day, a public typist earns about $3.50. |
| #3476 - Other Fact 6 On average, there are 333 squares of toilet paper on a roll. |
| #3477 - Other Fact -7 The numbers on opposite sides of a die always add up to 7. |
| #3478 - Other Fact 6 If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birth place is listed as a post office box in Albuquerque. |
| #3479 - Other Fact 4 The St. Louis Gateway Arch had a projected death toll while it was being built. No one died. |
| #3480 - Other Fact 8 The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. The concrete in it will not even be fully cured for another 500 years. |
| #3481 - Other Fact -8 The "Calabash" pipe, most often associated with Sherlock Holmes, was not used by him until William Gillette (an American) portrayed Holmes on stage. Gillette needed a pipe he could keep in his mouth while he spoke his lines. |
| #3482 - Other Fact -3 The Chinese national anthem is called "the march of volunteers." |
| #3483 - Other Fact 2 The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. |
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