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Interesting FactsGot this from one of my daily joke emails. Thought it was interesting enough to share 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321If a statue in the park of a person on a dollar bill has both front legs in the air, the person fitd as a result of wounds received in battle if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.Clans of long ago that wanted to get exempt of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village". on that point are two credit cards for every person in the United States.Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasnt added until 5 years later."I am." is the shortest complete decry in t he English language.The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts careful exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."The most common mark in the world is Mohammed.The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.Mel Blanc (the illustration of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepyheaded to realize that *this* was the day of the changeover.The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin duringWorld War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" much(prenominal) that it rhymed with "rejoice."In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.The term, "Its all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome.