14 November 2013

10 GREAT FACTS A DAY - Part 72 (13/11/2013)






711.  111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

712.  
The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is
         one of the few places in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car
         driving under an airplane.

713.  
The most popular treat for Halloween trick-or-treaters are candy bars with Snickers being
         the most popular.

714.  
Corned beef got its name because this beef was preserved with pellets of salt that were
         the size of corn kernels, which was also referred to as "corns" of salt.

715.  
The Canadian province of New Brunswick had a bloodless war with the US state of
         Maine in 1839.

716.  
In 1908, the first machine to make lollipops opened for business in New Haven,
         Connecticut.

717.  
In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary named Janine Swift officially married a fifty pound rock.
         More than twenty people witnessed the ceremony.

718.  
The most diners per capita in the world are located in the U.S. state New Jersey.

719.  
In Denmark, people eat about 36 pounds of candy a year. The highest consumption of
         candy of any country.

720.  
John Van Wormer invented paper milk cartons after dropping a bottle of milk one
         morning. The bottle broke spilling the milk everywhere. That annoyance was enough for
         Van Wormer to come up with the idea.



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