Facts in "Other" Category
#3504 - Other Fact     -1  Carnegie Mellon University offers bag piping as a major. The instructor James McIntosh, who is a member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, and who began bag piping at the age 11. |
| #3505 - Other Fact -3 The book of Esther in the Bible is the only book which does not mention the name of God. |
| #3506 - Other Fact -2 The Douglas DC-3 passenger airplane was the first to make a profit carrying people. |
| #3507 - Other Fact 18 There are 52 cards in a standard deck and there are 52 weeks in a year. There are 4 suits in a deck of cards and 4 seasons in a year. If you add the values of all the cards in a deck (jack=11 queen=12, etc.) you get a total of 365 the same as the number of days in a year. |
| #3508 - Other Fact 7 The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect. |
| #3509 - Other Fact 5 In 1982, the last member of a group of people who believed the Earth was hollow died. |
| #3510 - Other Fact 9 A man named John Bellavia has entered over 5000 contests, and has never won a thing. |
| #3511 - Other Fact -2 Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel. |
| #3512 - Other Fact 3 The number 4 is the only number that has the same number of letters in its name as its meaning. |
| #3513 - Other Fact -3 A standard 747 Jumbo Jet has 420 seats. |
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