10 GREAT FACTS A DAY - Part 280 (09/06/2014)

2791.            The name for Oz in "The Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank
    Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."

2792.            The town of Churchill, Manitoba, located in Canada, is known as the "Polar Bear
    Capital of the World"

2793.            Amtrak is the combination of the words "American" and "Track"

2794.            On average, an American relocates 11 times in their life.

2795.            Fires onland generally move faster uphill than downhill.

2796.            The cartoon character Popeye was actually based on a real person named Frank
    "Rocky" Fiegel who was a tough guy who was quite similar to Popeye physically.

2797.            Frisbee got its name from William Russel Frisbee, who was a pie baker. He used
    to sell his pies in a thin tin pan, which had Frisbee written on it. When Walter
    Frederick Morrison thought of the idea of making saucer like disks to play catch,
    he visited the campus of Yale and noticed people there were using the pie pan to
    play catch so he therefore renamed his invention to Frisbee.

2798.            Some arthritis medications contain gold salts, which is used as an
    anti-inflammatory.

2799.            Lemon juice can aid in reducing the swelling caused by insect bites.

2800.            LSD is made from lysergic acid, which is found in ergot, a type of fungus.