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Earth
weighs an estimated 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 metric tons. ( ...or six sextillion if you prefer. )
Googol
is the name in mathematics for a number '1' followed by 100 zeros. Which is: 100000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Googolplex
is the name in mathmatics defined as one to the power of googol. A Googolplex is written as: 1010100
Hippoopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
is the medical name for the fear of long words.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
is the longest word (45 letters) currently listed in a dictionary - which means a pneumoconiosis caused by the inhalation
of very fine silicate or quartz dust and which usually occurs in miners.
The First Telephone book
was issued by the New Haven, Connecticut, Telephone Company in 1878.
*( Only 2 years after the first telephone call by Alexander Graham Bell. )
Unusual Laws
are sometimes due to old laws long forgotten, but none-the-less still on the books. Some laws may be due to the
area in which it was written, or even for a certain reason we just not aware of. Anyhow, here's a few examples:
* Alabama, USA - You cannot wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church.
* Canada - You cannot pay a debt higher than 25 cents with pennies.
* London (England) - You cannot have sex on a parked motorcycle.
* Georgia (Atlanta), USA - You cannot tie a giraffe to a telephone pole.
* Wyoming (Newcastle), USA - You cannot have sex in a butcher shop's meat freezer.
Venus
is the ONLY planet in our solar system that rotates clockwise.
$10,000 US dollar bill
Salmon P. Chase (6th Chief Justice of the United States) appeared on these bills. It was a gold certificate type bill, and
for the most part, these bills were used by banks and the Federal Government for large financial transactions.
Click > HERE < for a photo of this bill.
$100,000 US dollar bill
Woodrow Wilson (the the 28th President of the United States) appeared on these bills. It was a gold certificate type bill,
and were used only for intra-government transactions. (The printing of these bills were discontinued on July 14, 1969.)
Click > HERE < for a photo of this bill.
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