Facts in "Other" Category
#3514 - Other Fact     5  If you lace your shoes from the inside to the outside the fit will be snugger around your big toe. |
| #3515 - Other Fact 4 In 1931, an industrialist named Robert Ilg built a half-size replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa outside Chicago and lived in it for several years. The tower is still there. |
| #3516 - Other Fact 5 The first manager of the Seattle Space Needle, Hoge Sullivan, was acrophobic - fearful of heights. The 605 foot tall Space Needle is fastened to its foundation with 72 bolts, each 30 feet long. The Space Needle sways approximately 1 inch for every 10 mph of wind. It was built to withstand a wind velocity of 200 miles-per-hour. |
| #3517 - Other Fact 3 The first revolving restaurant, The Top of the Needle, was located at the 500-foot level of the 605-foot-high steel-and-glass tower at the Century 21 Exposition in Seattle, Washington. It contained 260 seats and revolved 360 degrees in an hour. The state-of-the-art restaurant was dedicated on May 22, 1961. |
| #3518 - Other Fact 1 The foundations of the great European cathedrals go down as far as forty or fifty feet. In some instances, they form a mass of stone as great as that of the visible building above the ground. |
| #3519 - Other Fact 4 Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian. |
| #3520 - Other Fact 1 The roads on the island of Guam are made with coral. Guam has no sand. The sand on the beaches is actually ground coral. When concrete is mixed, the coral sand is used instead of importing regular sand from thousands of miles away. |
| #3521 - Other Fact -2 The Holland and Lincoln Tunnels under the Hudson River connecting New Jersey and New York are an engineering feat. The air circulators in the tunnels circulate fresh air completely every ninety seconds. |
| #3522 - Other Fact 5 The official soft drink of the state of Nebraska - Kool-Aid. |
| #3523 - Other Fact 3 Ivory Soap was originally named P&G White Soap. In 1879, Harley Proctor found the new name during a reading in church of the 45th Psalm of the Bible: "All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad." |
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