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901/ No word in the English
language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
902/ Winston Churchill was
born in a ladies room during a dance.
903/ Los Angele's full name
is 'El Puebleo de Nuestra Senora la reina de Los Angeles de
Porciuncula'. And can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its original
size 'L.A' - more
904/ When the University of
Nebraska Cornhuskers play American Football at home, the stadium
becomes the state's third largest city.
905/ The characters Bert and
Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie
the taxi driver in Frank Capra's 'Its a Wonderful Life'.
906/ Steel drums are the only
non-electric instrument invented in the 20th century.
907/ The longest musical piece
written is Vexations by Erik Satie. It consists of a 180 note
composition which must be repeated 840 times. The entire piece
takes 18 hours and 40 minutes.
908/ The Eisenhower interstate
system requires that one mile in every five must be straight.
These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of
war or other emergencies.
909/ Virginia Woolf wrote
all her books standing.
910/ Rabbits cannot vomit.
911/ The Giant Squid has the
largest eyes in the world.
912/ The Grateful Dead were
once called The Warlocks.
913/ Moon was Buzz Aldrin's
mother's maiden name. (Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the
moon in 1969)
914/ It was discovered on
a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws
up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's
mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the
stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down
again.
915/ Charles de Gaulle's final
words were, "It hurts".
916/ In the 1983 film 'Jaws
3D' the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were stuffed
ET dolls which were being sold at the time.
917/ Montana mountain goats
will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
918/ Wilma Flintstone's maiden
name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's maiden name
was Betty Jean McBricker.
919/ Telly Savalas and Louis
Armstrong died on their birthdays.
920/ Spot, Data's cat on Star
Trek: The Next Generation, was played by six different cats.
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