From:	MC23 mc23@**********.com
Subject:	Fwd: useless (but interesting) facts
Date:	Tue, 2 Feb 99 15:51:15 -0500

> - A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
>
> - In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile
> services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not
> renumber the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has
> channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
>
> - On the "save" icon on Microsoft Word, the shutter on the floppy
> disk is backwards.
>
> - The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms that are
> antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
>
> - The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
> letter is uncopyrightable.
>
> - Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order,
> as does arsenious, meaning, "containing arsenic."
>
> - Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards and are on the Australian
> coat of arms for that reason.
>
> - Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about
> ten.
>
> - Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
>
> - Camel's milk does not curdle.
>
> - In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
>
> - Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean
> elephants.
>
> - The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
>
> - All porcupines float in water.
>
> - "Hang On, Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio.
>
> - Did you know that there are coffee-flavored PEZ?
>
> - Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while
> he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
>
> - If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town
> hall, you are entitled to receive $0.10 from the town.
>
> - The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of
> yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled
> on the
> ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
>
> - Non-dairy creamer is flammable. - EEEEWWWW!!!!
>
> - The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie" (thus the
> name of the Don McLean song).
>
> - The only nation whose name begins with an "A," but doesn't end in an
> "A," is Afghanistan.
>
> - Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby
> born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.

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Ancient cultures believed that names held great power, personal names
more so and they were guarded very closely. To protect themselves, they
answered to another name, because if another discovered their real name,
it could be used against them.
History repeats itself.
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