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· Naugahyde, plastic "leather" was created in Naugatuck, Connecticut.
· The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
· Emus cannot walk backwards.
· The word posh, which denotes luxurious rooms or accomodations, originated when ticket agents in England marked the tickets of travelers going by ship to the Orient. Since there was no air conditioning in those days, it was always better to have a cabin on the shady side of the ship as it passed through the Mediterranean and Suez area. Since the sun is in the south, those with money paid extra to get cabin's on the left, or port, traveling to the Asia, and on the right, or starboard, when returning to Europe. Hence their tickets were marked with the initials for Port Outbound Starboard Homebound, or POSH.
· Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
· The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.
· Des Moines has the highest per capita Jello consumption in the U.S
· If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.
· Camel's milk does not curdle.
· Oliver Cromwell was hanged and decapitated two years after he had died.
· Roberta Flack wrote "Killing Me Softly" about singer Don McLean.
· The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' symbolizes 'two women living under one roof'.
· A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
· Naugahyde, plastic "leather" was created in Naugatuck, Connecticut.
· The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
· Emus cannot walk backwards.
· The word posh, which denotes luxurious rooms or accomodations, originated when ticket agents in England marked the tickets of travelers going by ship to the Orient. Since there was no air conditioning in those days, it was always better to have a cabin on the shady side of the ship as it passed through the Mediterranean and Suez area. Since the sun is in the south, those with money paid extra to get cabin's on the left, or port, traveling to the Asia, and on the right, or starboard, when returning to Europe. Hence their tickets were marked with the initials for Port Outbound Starboard Homebound, or POSH.
· Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
· The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.
· Des Moines has the highest per capita Jello consumption in the U.S
· If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.
· Camel's milk does not curdle.
· Oliver Cromwell was hanged and decapitated two years after he had died.
· Roberta Flack wrote "Killing Me Softly" about singer Don McLean.
· The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' symbolizes 'two women living under one roof'.
· A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
