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Fast Facts
October 5, 2007
The “”save”” icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backward.
The country with the biggest percentage of female heads of household is Botswana.
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
Grabatology is the collecting of ties.
There is a Historical Museum of Spaghetti in Pontedassio, Italy.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
“”Typewriter”” is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
King George VI competed at Wimbledon in 1926 when he was duke of York. The left-hander lost his first-round doubles match.
Science-fiction writer Harlan Ellison once mailed a dead gopher to a publishing executive who refused to relinquish the rights to one of his books.
The word “”pornography”” is from the Greek pornographus, meaning “”writing about prostitutes.””
Sylvester Stallone once expressed the wish to be reincarnated as a paintbrush.
Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
Rock English, a mixture of Spanish and English, is the local language spoken in Gibraltar.
Humphrey Bogart’s last words were “”I should never have switched from scotch to martinis.””
Nose prints are the most reliable way of identifying dogs.
Armadillos and humans are the only animals that can get leprosy.
The heaviest organs in the human body are the lungs, which together weigh about 42 ounces.
Attila the Hun died of a nosebleed on his wedding night in 452 A.D.
