10 GREAT FACTS A DAY - Part 274 (03/06/2014)

2731.            When former Texas Governor James Hogg was on his deathbed he made a
    special request that a pecan tree be planted at the head of his grave instead of a
    tombstone. The governor passed away on March 2, 1906, which is Texas
    Independence Day. The pecan tree is now the state tree of Texas.

2732.            In a year, there are 60,000 trampoline injuries that occur in the U.S

2733.            There is an organization called SCROOGE in Charlottesville, Virginia that stands
    for Society to Curtail Ridiculous, Outrageous, and Ostentatious Gift Exchanges.
    This was formed to keep gift giving affordable and simple.

2734.            The first World Series baseball playoffs occurred in 1903.

2735.            Archipelago is the word to describe a large group of islands that are located close
    together.

2736.            The life expectancy of a garbage disposal is about 5 to 10 years.

2737.            In the original movie "101 Dalmatians," there are exactly 6,469,952 spots on all
    101 Dalmatians as they are shown in 113,760 frames of the film combined.

2738.            The average North American car contains 300 pounds of plastics.

2739.            A person who is a specialist in wine making is called an oenologist.

2740.            You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.