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FACTS OF THE MONTH:
The new king of Jordan made a cameo appearance three years ago on "Star Trek: Voyager".
The sport with the most number of officials with relation to players is tennis (2 players, 13 officials).
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
The first city to reach a population of one million was London.
When hippopotamuses get upset, their sweat turns red.
The set of glasses filled with different levels of water in order to make different musical tones is called a hydrodaktulopsychicarmonica.
from  WEEK:
The Alaskan coastline is longer than than the entire coastline of the lower forty-eight states. Secretary of State William Seward purchased the Alaskan territory from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million, although the Russians only ever saw $5 million of it. Nobody officially knows what happened to the rest. Although Alaska is twice the size of Texas, the next-largest state, its population & land road mileage are more like that of Vermont. A 1943 Japanese invasion of the Aleutian islands and the "One Thousand Mile War" that resulted marked the first battle on American soil since the Civil War. The nation's northernmost supermarket, in Barrow, was constructed on stilts in order to prevent the central heating units from thawing the permafrost, at a cost of $4 million. Since the start of the 20th century, 25% of all earthquake energy released in the world was released in Alaska. Sources vary as to the origin of the name "Alaska". Most say it comes from the eskimo "Alyeska" (Great Land), while others say it comes from "Alaxsxaq" (place where the sea goes). |
A skunk will not bite & throw its scent at the same time.
Every month has an Ides, not just March ("Beware the Ides of March"). In March, May, July and October the Ides are on the 15th. The other eight months, the 13th.
Nothing can be burned again that has already been burned once.
No one knows where Mozart is buried.
Prior to its recent addition of a bag of money to the Monopoly playing pieces, the last change had occured 47 years earlier, when the dog, the wheelbarrow and the horse and rider replaced a lantern, a purse and a rocking horse.
Linda Hunt was the first person to win an acting Oscar portraying someone of the opposite sex (Best Supporting Actress, "The Year of Living Dangerously", 1983).
During World War I, the entire complement of the U.S. Air Force was fifty men.
At the height of its power in 400 B.C., the Greek city of Sparta's population was 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves.
| from OSCAR
WEEK II:
An Academy Award statuette costs $400 to make. Liza Minelli is the only Oscar-winner whose parents (Vincent Minelli & Judy Garland) also won Oscars. Oscar Hammerstein II (of the composing duo of Rogers & Hammerstein) is the only person named Oscar to win a namesake. Maggie Smith won an Oscar by playing someone who doesn't win an Oscar. Diane Keaton won an Oscar for basically playing herself in Woddy Allen's autobiographical "Annie Hall". Walt Disney won eight Oscars for "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs": one regular-size and seven miniature. Although Shirley Temple won a special Oscar when she was six, Tatum O'Neal was the youngest to win in a regular category (Supporting Actress, "Paper Moon", age 10). |
Only four out the of nine hundred poems that Emily Dickinson wrote were published during her lifetime.
If all the Antarctic ice melted, the ocean level would rise nearly 250 feet, and 25% of the land surface would be flooded.
Four of America's most famous lawyers, Stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, John Marshall and Daniel Webster, never went to law school.
| and one from April Fool's Day:
Martin Gibson of West Snohomish, ID, never learned to read or write, yet during the course of his 47-year marriage dictated 372 full-length novels to his wife until her death, when he discovered she couldn't read or write either. |
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