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10 Little Known Facts

Published by Graham Fisher in Random
January 24, 2008

Trivia to bore your friends with.

  1. In Poker there is a one in five hundred chance of drawing a flush.
  2. There are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different possible color combinations on a Rubik’s cube.
  3. Q is the only letter of the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any US state.
  4. In 1900 the average age of death in the US was 47.
  5. In 2000 Hilary Clinton was elected to the US Senate making her the 1st First Lady ever to be elected to public office.
  6. In 2007 Keith Ellison became the 1st Muslim member of the US Congress.
  7. Abraham Lincoln invented a hydraulic device for lifting ships. This made him the only US President ever to be granted a patent.
  8. Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.
  9. Between 1931 and 1969 Walt Disney collected thirty-five Oscars.
  10. Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy.

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