10 GREAT FACTS A DAY - Part 48 (20/10/2013)

471.  Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.

472.  Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of
         excrement."

473.  Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.

474.  Actor Sylvester Stallone once had a job as a lion cage cleaner.

475.  Play-Doh was introduced in 1956 by Hasbro Inc. The only color available was an off white,
         and it came in one size which a one and a half pound can.

476.  The USSR launched the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, in 1957.

477.  An oyster can change its gender.

478.  From all the states, Montana has the most different species of animals.

479.   The actual smallest sovereign entity in the world is the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
         (S.M.O.M.). It is located in the city of Rome, Italy, has an area of two tennis courts, and as
         of 2001 has a population of 80, 20 less people than the Vatican. It is a sovereign entity
         under international law, just as the Vatican is.

480.  Queen Elizabeth I always wore a necklace with a little perfume bottle attached everywhere
         she went.