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Saturday, November 3, 2012

Real Amazing Facts 16

Almonds are members of the peach family.
 

If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050
 

The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
 

The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific.  When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage.  If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
 

The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.
 

The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
 

Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."
 

Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into veiw. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view  again.
 

Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.

The first hard drive available for the Apple had a capacity of 5megabytes.