Faudzil @ Ajak

Faudzil @ Ajak
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4 November 2013

10 GREAT FACTS A DAY - Part 63 (04/11/2013)







621.  Ninety-nine percent of pumpkins sold in the United States are for the sole purpose of
         decoration.

622.  
David McConnell started the California Perfume Company (CPC) in 1886. Today the
         company is known as Avon, which he named after his favorite playwright William
         Shakespeare, and Stratford on Avon.

623.  
Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.

624.  
Chicago has the largest cookie factory, where Nabisco made over 4.6 billion "Oreo"
         cookies in 1997.

625.  
In 1963, Mister Rogers was ordained as a Presbyterian minister.

626.  
There was a post office on the Russian space station Mir. Visiting cosmonauts would use
         unique postal "markers" to stamp envelopes and other items as having flown aboard the
         Mir space station.

627.  
In one day, 230 marriage licenses are issued in Las Vegas.

628.  
Every second there are 418 Kit Kat fingers eaten in the world.

629.  
The Great Comet of 1843 had a tail that was over 300 kilometres long.

630.  
The dumbest dog in the world is the Afghan Hounds.


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