- A novel with 50,000 words, none of which contained the letter E was written by Ernest Wright.
- Mark Twain’s book Tom Sawyer (1876) was the first novel to ever be written on a typewriter.
- The letters of the alphabet in order of frequency of use are: ETAISONHRDLUCMFWYPGVBKJQXZ
- You consume one tenth (0.1) calories when you lick a stamp.
- Laughter is a proven way to lose weight.
- There was once a town named 6 in West Virginia.
- Every year more people are killed by donkeys, than in aircraft crashes.
- The earth weighs about 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
- Every day the sun loses about 360 million tons.
- The first word spoken on the moon was Okay.
- Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot.
- In an average day, a four-year-old child will ask 437 questions.
- In Michelangelo’s ceiling painting of the Sistine Chapel, Pope Julius II pressured him to finish the giant painting on time. For this, Michelangelo didn’t like the Pope, and placed him, and others he didn’t like, in hell when he painted the Judgment Day scene.
- The Statue of Liberty’s crown has seven points.
- The doorbell was invented in 1831.
- A baby born in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny.
- If you don’t want to figure that out, it’s these words combined; True will laughing life bucky boomer manifestdestiny. (manifestdestiny: n. a belief in the 1800s that the United States destiny is to span from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.)
Did you know that…?
Posted by shirley in Wednesday, June 28th 2006
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