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3701/ The final episode of MASH
was screened in the US on Febrary 28th 1983 and got a record
audience of 50,150,000 viewers. The 'Who Shot JR?' episode
of Dallas was screened on November 21st 1980 and got 41,470,000
viewers in the United States.
3702/ The word 'Muppet' is an amalgam of the
words marionette and puppet. (Editor's Note: DO NOT call your
significant other this. They DO NOT like it!)
3703/ Sesame Street debuted on PBS in 1969.
3704/ Frank and Ernie from the Muppets were
named after the policeman and cab driver in Frank Capra's
Classic Christmas Day film 'It's a Wonderful Life'
3705/ The name "Corvette" was in
use by the US military before there was a car. It referred
to a ship.
3706/ The Nobel Prize for Literature has been
awarded nearly every year since 1901 to an individual who
has benefited humanity by produccing distinguished literary
works. The prize is named after Alfred B Nobel, the swedish
chemist who invented dynamite and bequeathed the interest
from $9,000,000 to be used for the Nobel Prizes.
3707/ The word 'bowdlerize' - meaning to excise
material deemed objectionable from a piece of writing - Is
named after Thomas Bowdler, who censored and deleted passages
and words from Shakespeare's plays in 1818.
3708/ An elegy is a lyric poem about death.
Lyric poems usually express a single emotion.
3709/ The emergency telephone number in Australia
is 000.
3710/ The Barenaked Ladies pop song "One
Week" was number 1 on the US Billboard music chart for
One Week in October 1998.
3711/ The standard pre-cooked weight of a
McDonalds Hamburger is 1.6 ounces.
3712/ There are two talking animals in the
bible. The Serpent (Genesis 3) and Balaam's Ass (Numbers 22)
3713/ The Volkswagon Beetle was introduced
into the United States in 1949. In that first year a grand
total of 3 were sold.
3714/ A puck in the NHL has a diameter of
3 inches.
3715/ The minimum depth of a hole in professional
golf is 4 inches.
3716/ Classical Ballet has 5 standard foot
positions.
3717/ The US has six states with
geographic regions that are known as "panhandles".
These are Alaska,
Florida, Idaho, Oklahoma, Texas and West Virginia.
3718/ There are a minimum of 8 lanes in an
Olympic Swimming Pool.
3719/ An Olympic Steeplechase has 7 water
jumps.
3720/ According to the King James version
of the Bible there were 8 passengers on Noah's Ark. These
were Noah and his wife, their three sons (Ham, Japheth and
Shem) and their sons wives.
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