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Trivia and Amazing Facts [6-4-16]


Trivia and Amazing Facts
  • Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer
  • Something that is of or based on the number twenty is said to be "vigesimal" or "vicenary"
  • HOW LARGE IS THE MOON? Its diameter is 2,160 miles. The earth's diameter at the equator is 7, 926.68 miles
  • The numbers "172" can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial
  • WHY DO OLD FIREHOUSES HAVE CIRCULAR STAIRCASES? Because in days of yore the horses that pulled fire engines were stabled on the ground floor of fire houses and figured how to work up straight staircases