Facts in "Other" Category
#3494 - Other Fact     2  Some 30,000,000 Americans slave over crosswords in newspaper, journals, and paperback books. |
| #3495 - Other Fact 3 The hardest crossword puzzles according to experts appear in two British papers: "The London Times" and "Observer." Only few readers can complete these and it takes them 2 to 3 hours. The record time for completing a "Times" puzzle was an incredible 3 minutes and 45 seconds by a British diplomat named Roy Dean in 1970. |
| #3496 - Other Fact -2 The largest crossword puzzle ever published had 2631 clues across and 2922 clues down. It took up 16 sq. feet of space. |
| #3497 - Other Fact -7 George Washington is the only man whose birthday is a legal holiday in every state of the U.S as of a few years ago. |
| #3498 - Other Fact 28 acetwothreefourfivesixseveneightninetenjackqueenking Excluding the joker, if you add up the letters in all the names of the cards in the deck (Ace, two, three, four,...,king). the total number of letters is 52, the same as the number of cards in the deck. |
| #3499 - Other Fact -6 The father of the Pink Flamingo (the plastic lawn ornament) is Don Featherstone of Massachusetts. Featherstone graduated from art school and went to work as a designer for Union Products, a Leominster, Mass., company that manufactures flat plastic lawn ornaments. He designed the pink flamingo in 1957 as a follow up project to his plastic duck. Today, Featherstone is president and part owner of the company that sells an average of 250,000 to 500,000 plastic pink flamingos a year."I did it to keep from starving." - Don Featherstone (flamingo creator) |
| #3500 - Other Fact -4 Cleveland spelled backwards is "DNA level C". |
| #3501 - Other Fact 0 When wearing a Kimono, Japanese women wear socks called "Tabi". The big toe of the sock is separated from the rest of the toes, like a thumb from a mitten. |
| #3502 - Other Fact 11 The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. |
| #3503 - Other Fact 6 How valuable is the penny you found laying on the ground? If it takes just a second to pick it up, a person could make $36.00 per hour just picking up pennies. |
Copyright © 2006-2011 Los Angeles Website Development