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Useless Facts 9
A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
Kansas City has more miles of boulevards than Paris
and more fountains than any city except Rome.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula."
Missouri ties with Tennessee as the most neighborly state in the union, bordered by 8 states.
Japan has approximately 200 volcanoes and is home to 10% of the active volcanoes in the world.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of a 5 dollar bill.
Missouri was named after a tribe called Missouri Indians; meaning "town of the large canoes"
1975 The South American country of Suriname is granted independence from the Netherlands.
The Netherlands is the lowest lying country with an
estimated 40% below sea level.
Frankfurt, Germany, spends more per year on the arts than any other city in Europe.
Austria's national anthem was composed by Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791).
St. Louis; is also called, "The Gateway to the West"
and "Home of the Blues".
Helsinki is, after Reykjavik, Iceland, the world's northernmost capital city.
The town of Tidikelt in the Shara Desert once went ten years without rainfall.
Missouri's oldest community, Saint Genevieve,
was founded as early as 1735.
Murmansk, in Russia, is the largest city north of the
Arctic Circle.
Reykjavik, Iceland is the world's most northerly
capital city.
Lombard Street is London's equivalent of New York's Wall Street.
Las Vegas has the most chapels per capita than any other U.S. city.
In 1865 Missouri became the first slave state to free its slaves.
Finland has 179,584 islands, the greatest number in
the world.
Due to water depletion, Mexico City is sinking every year.
The state with the longest coastline in the US is Alaska.
Monaco is about the size of twelve New York City blocks.
Soybeans bring in the most cash for Missourians as a crop.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
The U.S. bought Alaska from Russia for 2 cents an acre.
Tasmania has the cleanest air in the inhabited world.
Lutetia was the ancient name of Paris, France.
China was the first country to use paper money.
Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States.
England is smaller than New England.
China has over 50,000 rivers.
Buckingham Palace has 602 rooms
The 12th president of the United States was David Rice Atchinson, a Missouri senator who served for one day in 1849. The new president usually took office on March 4. But that year it fell on a Sunday, and although President James Polk left on schedule, Zachary Taylor did not take the oath until the next day. Rice was president pro tempore of the Senate, and under the provisions of the Constitution, he served until Taylor was sworn in. Atchinson neither started a war nor raised any taxes: he just left quietly after 24 hours.
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
~ Pete Seeger
