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Assorted Levity for Your Rotary Week/Life

By Mike Corwin

Amusing random facts:

  • The longest wedding veil was longer than 63 football fields.
  • Some cats are allergic to people.
  • The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.
  • The Crown Jewels contain the two biggest cut diamonds on Earth.
  • The voices of Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.
  • The largest known living organism is a 47,000-tree aspen grove in Utah estimated at 80,000 years old taking up more than 100 acres.
  • The odds of getting a royal flush poker hand are exactly 1 in 649,740.
  • Frank Lloyd Wright’s son invented Lincoln Logs.
  • About 700 grapes go into one bottle of wine.
  • The largest sand castle in the world measured 54 feet high.
  • A team of six women programmed the first digital computer.
  • Two-Buck Chuck once won a top wine award: Trader Joe’s 2002 Charles Shaw Shiraz beat out 2,300 other wines to win a prestigious double gold medal at the 28th Annual International Eastern Wine Competition.
  • And if you’ve read this far, I’m impressed and finish with a random fact quiz: Only one NFL team has a plant for a logo. Which one is it? E-mail me at mike.corwin@comcast.net with the answer just to prove your perseverance. 🙂

 
 


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District 5110
Zone 27
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