From: Patrick Velardi From: Jerry Taylor Technology Integration Teacher Greece (NY) School District www.greeceny.com *The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies. * The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane. * Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. * David Prowse, was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie. * In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. * Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds. * The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites. * No word in the English language rhymes with month. * The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. * Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category. * Cat's urine glows under a black light. * Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator. * The first Ford cars had Dodge engines. * Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. * It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot. * In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. * Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age. * Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously * If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. (This would make a GREAT math brain teaser!) * Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. (How much did you pay for those new sneakers??) * No NFL team which plays it's home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl * The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game. And, last but certainly not least... * The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver". *************************************************** Patrick Velardi betsy.ross@snet.net Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School http://pantheon.cis.yale.edu/~bross2/betsyros.html ***************************************************