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961/ The Academy Award statue
is named after a librarian's uncle. One day Maragaret Herrick,
librarian for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences,
made a remark that the statue looked like here uncle Oscar,
and the name stuck.
962/ Nova Scotia is latin
for New Scotland.
963/ The term 'Cop' originated
from the expression 'Constable on Patrol'.
964/ The collecting of beer
mats is called Tegestology.
965/ 'Zorro' means 'fox' in
Spanish.
966/ In Chinese, the KFC slogan
'finger-lickin good' came out as 'eat your fingers off'.
967/ In Chinese, the words
crisis and opportunity are the same.
968/ There are more then 20,000
brands of beer.
969/ Cows do not have upper
front teeth.
970/ The human head contains
22 bones.
971/ The Sun is about 93 million
miles (150 million km) from the Earth. If you could drive
that distance in a car at 60 miles (96km) per hour, it would
take 177 years of non-stop driving to get there.
972/ During Winter, a buffalo
uses its massive head as a slowplow to clear a path in search
of buried plants.
973/ Honey Bees make a total
of 10 million trips between their hive and flowers for each
pound (450g) of honey they make.
974/ Wolves may howl messages
to each other from a mile or two apart.
975/ Spiders have noses on
their feet that can pick up the odours of possible prey, predators,
or mates.
976/ In the United States,
deaf people have safer driving records than hearing people
nationally.
977/ As of 1998, more then
100,000 Americans die annually from adverse reactions to prescription
drugs.
978/ George Ellery Hale was
the 20th century's most important builder of telescopes. In
1897, Hale built a 40 inch wide telescope, the largest ever
built at that time. His second telescope, with a sixty inch
lens, was set up in 1917 and took 14 years to build. During
the 14 years Hale became convinced that he suffered from a
disorder in which the excessive ambitions of the individual
drive them insane. During the building of his 100 inch lens
Hale spent time in a sanatorium and would only discuss his
plans for the telescope with 'a sympathetic green elf'.
979/ Hale's 100 inch lens
built in the early 1900s was the largest solid piece of glass
made until then. The lens was made by a French specialist
who poured the equivalent of ten thousand melted champagne
bottles into a mould packed with heat maintaining manure so
that the glass would cool slowly and not crack.
980/ Rudyard Kipling, living
in Vermont in the 1890s invented the game of snow golf. He
painted the golf balls red so that they could be located in
the snow.
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