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Saturday, November 3, 2012

Real Amazing Facts 22

Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.
 

Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of the distrubution of galaxies.  In each layer of the map some galaxies are grouped together in such a way that they resemble a human being.
 

Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
 

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
 

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
 

The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism".
 

When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau."
 

Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth ... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
 

The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold.


The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady is Edith Fore.