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FACTS OF THE MONTH:
September comes from the latin for 'seven'. (Until the implementation of the Gregorian Calendar, September was the seventh month of the year.)
The Earth is slowing in its spin. Back in the time of the dinosaurs a day lasted just under 23 hours.
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THE PERCENTAGES WEEK:
Jazz fans have 30% more sex than the average American. Only twelve percent of American teenagers know where Abraham Lincoln lived, while 74% knew where Bart Simpson lives. (The answer to both is Springfield.) Of all the man-made objects orbiting the Earth, 72% of them no longer serve any function. The human brain is 80% water. Twenty-one percent of American teenagers know how many U.S. Senators there are. Eighty-one percent know how many Hanson brothers there are. Ten percent of Canadians age 18-25 believe Neil Armstrong was the first Canadian in space. Seventy-four percent of first-year medical students believe a knowledge of nutrition is important in their career. By the third year of med school, only 13% still believe it. |
The year Roger Maris hit his 61 home runs, no other team was able to score more than sixty.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
Due to massive inflation in Germany following World War I, one American dollar equaled 4 quintillion German marks (4 followed by 18 zeros).
The record for running the 100-yard dash backwards is fourteen seconds.
Black is not the color of mourning in Turkey, purple is.
The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last home run, and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first were thrown by the same man.
Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Slaghoople. Betty Rubble's was McBricker.
Miss Piggy's measurements are 27-20-32.
Not only is the Pentagon five-sided, it is five stories tall, and the inner courtyard is five acres in size.
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WEEK:
The two actors to play Henry Blake, Roger Bowen in the original movie and McLean Stevenson on TV, died one day apart. Col. Blake's wife and Col. Potter's wife were both named Mildred. Jamie Farr (Klinger) was the only regular cast member who actually fought in the Korean War. Alan Alda and Mike Farrell were the only cast members to direct an episode they also wrote (Alda 13, Farrell 2). The voice on the P.A. belongs to Sal Viscuso, best known as Father Tim on "Soap". Of the regular characters on the show, Radar was the youngest. Of the regular cast members, David Ogden Stiers (Winchester) is the youngest. This series set during the Korean War lasted four times longer than the war itself. |
When the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre for a two-year period, more people came to see the blank space left on the wall than had come for the previous twelve years to see the painting.
When Hurricanes Georges, Ivan, Jeanne and Karl were active in the North Atlantic, it represented the first time since records were kept that the Atlantic had four hurricanes at the same time.
The Finnish language has more than four thousand irregular verbs.
A male lion eats the equivalent of 320 hamburgers per day.
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