Monday, March 26, 2012

TRIVIA BITS

 

  • The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
  • The Godfather was the first movie in over twenty years in which Marlon Brando was required to audition.
  • The Goliath frog of West Africa is nearly three feet long.
  • The Gothic-style Washington National Cathedral contains the remains of the only US president buried in Washington: Woodrow Wilson. William Howard Taft and John F. Kennedy are buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, VA.
  • The great film comedian, W.C. Fields, died on Christmas Day in 1946. His tombstone bore the following epitaph: " On the whole I would rather be in Philadelphia".
  • The great Gothic cathedral of Milan was started in 1386, and wasn’t completed until 1805.
  • The Great Lakes are Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Superior, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
  • The Great Lakes are the most important inland waterway in North America. All the lakes, except Lake Michigan, which lies entirely in the United States, are shared by the United States and Canada and form part of the border between these countries.
  • The Great Lakes contain 6 quadrillion gallons of fresh water, one-fifth of the world's fresh surface water. The Great Lakes are the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world.

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