10 Most Important Facts.....
1.The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per Side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
2.Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and lower, because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the
case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.
3.There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
4.There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!
5.The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
6.The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!
7.The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
8.There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back of a $10 dollar bill.
9.Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors, also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
10.If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
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