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Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
O Canada was proclaimed the national anthem on July 1, 1980, a century after being sung for the first time. A key element of the Canadian flag - the stylized maple leaf - was designed by Mr.ïJacques St. Cyr, while the proportions of the flag were outlined by Mr. George Bist, a World War II veteran, and the precise colouration of the flag defined by Dr. Gunter Wyszechi. The final determination of all aspects of the new flag was made by a 15-member parliamentary committee, which is officially credited with the design. Canada is a constitutional monarchy and a federal state with a democratic parliament. The Parliament of Canada, in Ottawa, consists of the House of Commons, whose members are elected, and the Senate, whose members are appointed. On average, members of Parliament are elected every four years. At 9 970 610 km2, Canada is the world's second-largest country. Two-thirds of the US population is named in honor of another person. Of these, 60% are named after a relative and 40% are named after a friend or famous person. Actor Keanu Reeve's first name means 'cool breeze over the mountains' in the Hawaiian language. Film director Ron Howard and his Wife Cheryl gave their children a middle name for the place (like the Carlyle hotel) where each child was conceived. Dave Thomas, the founder of Wendy's, named his business after his daughter, Wendy. The funny thing is that Wendy's real name was Melinda Lou. Hmmm. Former US President Ulysses S. Grant had the boyhood nickname 'Useless'. A couple in Louisiana named their children after famous colleges: Stanford, Duke, T'Lane, Harvard, Princeton, Auburn and Cornell. The parents' names? Stanford, Sr. and Loyola. Some people don't like their own first name. The most common reasons given for this dislike are that the names 'sound too ugly,' that they're old-fashioned, too hard to pronounce, too common, too uncommon, too long, sound too foreign, are too easy for people to joke about, and that they sound too feminine (for men) or too masculine (for women). While beta testing a newly compiled computer program, government workers found a real-life Donald Duck! It turns out the programmers used this 'fictional' name to check out their military personnel software. The problem was that there was already an Army Engineer with that name. The soldier became famous and was invited as a guest on the Johnny Carson Show as a result of this discovery. Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with common names. Girls don't seem to have this problem. Elvis Presley had two nicknames for his daughter, Lisa Marie Presley: 'Yisa' and 'Buttonhead'. H.R. Haldeman and Ron Ziegler, who helped plan the Watergate burglary for President Nixon, both worked at Disneyland when they were younger. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know your there. The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. The concrete in it will not even be fully cured for another 500 years. The first Rolls-Royce sold for $600.00 in 1906. Today the cheapest model goes for close to $200,000. The fortune cookie was invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodlemaker. When Spain declared war on the U.S. in 1898, the U.S. in turn declared war on Spain but backdated the declaration by three days so it would look more heroic to have declared war first. The first product to have a UPC bar code on its packaging was Wrigley's gum The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma in an emergency The first female operator was Emma M. Nutt, who started working for Telephone Dispatch Company in Boston, on September 1, 1878. Prior to that, all operators were men. William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) was the first US president to die in office. At 32 days, he also had the shortest term in office. Greece's national anthem has 158 verses. The number of atoms in a pound of iron is nearly five trillion billion 4,891,500,000,000,000,000,000,000. The Brooklyn Dodgers (who later became the Los Angeles Dodgers) did not get their name because of their sporting ability. The term 'dodger' was a shortened form of 'trolley dodgers,' which was first used to describe Brooklynites for their ability to avoid being hit by trolley cars. The largest taxi fleet in the world is found in Mexico City. The city boasts a fleet of over 60,000 taxis. London Bridge is not falling down and it is not in London. It was moved to Arizona, where it now spans the Little Thames River, a short canal off the Colorado River. The Pretzel is named from the Latin word 'brachiatus'' meaning 'having branch-like arms' Shiny metals such as tin or copper turn into black powders when ground fine. Aluminum is the exception The Liberty Bell was not made in the United States and it was not rung on the first 4th of July. It was cast in London in 1752, cracked in 1835 and was not named the Liberty Bell until the 1830's in memory of slaves seeking their freedom. President Clinton was 46 when he took office. The Mariana Trench, a great fissue in the floor of the Pacific Ocean, reaches a depth of 36,198 feet at its lowest measure point, just off the Philippines. Mount Everest, considered to be the world's highest mountain, which dominates the Himalayan chain on the Nepal-Tibet Border, is 'only' 29,028 feet high. A brick wall and plate-glass window are made of from the same principal ingredient: SAND! Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated. High altitude and continous darkness in winter combine to make interior Antarctica the coldest place on Earth. The lowest tempeature ever recorded was -126.9 F o(-88.3 C)at 11,500 feet above sea level, at the Russian station of Vostok on August 24, 1960. The coldest tempeature recorded in the northern hemisphere was not within the arctic regions. A temperature of -71 degrees C (-96 deegres F.)was recorded in Janurary 1964, in the village of Oymyakon in eastern Siberia. It is 320 kilometers south of the Arctic Circle. Probably the most intense earthquake in the history of the United States occured December 16, 1811, and two further shocks five and seven weeks later. It centered on New Madrid, Missouri. One million square miles were shaken, a much greater area than affected by the California quake in 1906. Chimneys were knocked down in Cincinnati, 400 miles away. Shocks were felt 500 miles in New Orleans and in Boston 1,100 miles distant. The course of the Mississippi was changed, some islands disappeared, and new lakes and creeks were created. There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible. The Tennis Hall of Fame is located Newport, Rhode Island Half a billion people - about one of every eight - are suffering chronic malnutrition today. The largest stained-glass window in the world is at Kennedy International Airport in New York City. It can be seen on the American Airlines terminal building and measures 300 feet long by 23 feet high. The parents of Dwight D. Eisenhower, who rose to become one of the few five-star generals in the U.S. history, were pacifists. The top of the Empire State Building was originally intended as a mooring place for dirigibles. (Although it has never been used for that purpose.) Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose Margaret Gorman was the first Miss America. She was 16 (1921) A space vehicle must move at a rate of at least 7 miles per second to escape the earth's gravitational pull. This is equivalent to going from New York to Philadelphia in about twenty seconds. Twenty thousand plants are listed by the World Health Organization as being used for therapeutic purposes. There are more telephones than people in Washington D.C. In 1935, 'Iran' became the new name for Persia, which was the new name for what had earlier been Iran. It is possible to drown and not die. Technically the term 'drowning' refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process. Antarctica is the only continent that does not have land areas below sea level. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime. Roman statues were made with detachable heads, so that one head could be removed and replaced by another. There are ten human body parts that are only three letters long (eye, hip, arm, leg, ear, toe, jaw, rib, lip, gum). A scrum is rugby's equivalent of a hockey face-off, except that it involves all those playing the position of forward on both teams. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower. At the start of the 1980s, it cost 15 cents to mail a first-class letter in the United States. The average adult has four wisdom teeth. There are nine rooms in the board game 'Clue'. The novel 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' was the novel that Charles Dickens left incomplete at the time of his death. Flight number 007 was the Korean airliner that was shot down by a Soviet fighter in 1983. Mia Farrow was on the cover of 'People' magazine on March 4, 1974 when the magazine debuted. In 1904 St. Louis was the first U.S. city to host the Summer Olympics. France was the first country that first produced brandy for widescale commercial sale Dr. James Naismith is credited with invented the sport of Basketball A seagull drinks salt water because it has special glands that filter out the salt. The highest 'par' sanctioned by the United States Golf Association is six. Coney Island the amusement park has had three of its rides designated as New York City historical landmarks. 'I Love Lucy', a 50s sitcom airs every hour of every day somewhere in the world. The Australian government authorizes the killing of two million kangaroos of per year. Lead emissions from cars dropped an amazing 96 percent in the U.S. from 1983 to 1993. Beijing boasts the world’s largest Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. Larry Bird won the NBA’s MVP award in 1984, 1985 and 1986. Charles Lindbergh’s heroics were cheered by all but New York City’s street maintenance crew in 1927 Evel Knievel broke 93 bones trying to leap 36 cars on his motorcycle at the Astrodome. The appearance of the Mediterranean fruit fly’s in 1975 threatened California’s $16 billion agricultural industry. Steven Spielberg helmed four of the top 10 highest-grossing movies before finally winning an Oscar for his craft. The English queen, who had Mary Queen of Scots killed but named Mary’s son her successor was Elizabeth I. Brazil is the only country to have played in every World Cup soccer tournament. Tobacco was the plant that made Queen Elizabeth I gasp in 1560: “It bites like an adder!” Spencer Tracy played a fisherman in 1937 and a priest in 1938 to win back-to-back best actor Oscars. John Kenedy Jr's salute became one of the most widely circulated photos in 1963 Rush Limbaugh used the name Rusty Sharpe as a Top 40 disk jockey Charles Barkley played hoops with Godzilla in a Nike add. The number one windiest city in the USA is Blue Hill Maine with an average wind speed of 15.4 miles per hour. Marquette Michigan is the second snowiest city in the USA with an average snow fall of 129.2 inches of snow per year. Marquette is also the fourth coolest city in the USA with a mean temperature of 39.2 degrees. Michigan has 36,350 miles of rivers. Approximately 38,459 sq. miles of Great Lakes water is included within Michigan's boundaries. No matter where you stand in Michigan, you are never more than 85 miles from a Great Lake. Play-doh was first invented as a wallpaper cleaner 101 dalmations,Lady and the Tramp, and Peter Pan are the only 3 Disney movies where both of the parents are there and don't die throughout the movie Termites are affected by music. They will eat your house twice as fast if you play loud music Spiders secrete oil from their feet, that is why they don't stick to the web. Dogs only see in black, white, and gray and can hear 10 times farther away than humans A disease that wheat gets is called stinking smut Eels have 2 hearts
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