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 Did You Know? Amazing Facts...
- The first Oscars
were awarded in 1929 to 12 Hollywood stars in under five minutes. Three of
the best actor nominees didn't show up, nor did the press. Janet Gaynor
was the first 'Best Actress' winner, taking home the Oscar for her
performance in "Seventh Heaven."
- About 10% of the world's population is
left-handed.
- The Mariana Trench, off the coast of Guam
in the Pacific Ocean, is the deepest point in the Earth's crust. At the
trench's deepest point (known as the Challenger Deep), it is 36,198 feet
below sea level.
- Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
- Between 1908 and 1940, people
could order a house, from a modest bungalow to a magnificent mansion,
right from the catalog. Sears manufactured homes came in a bout 450
ready-to-assemble designs and they ranged in price form $595 to $5,000.
- The number
of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the
people that have died. Ever.
- A person blinks over 10,000,000 times a
year!
- According to
the National Sleep Foundation, 75% of adults say they have problems
sleeping. The poll used a random sample of 1,506 adults who were called in
the middle of the night.
- Based on
tuition only, Landmark College is the most expensive college to attend in
the United States. It is a private school in Vermont designed for students
with learning disabilities. For the 2004/05 academic year, one year's
tuition carried the hefty price tag of $36,750.
- A
jellyfish
is 95 percent water!
- At
188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced
by any animal.
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TRUE
STORIES: Miniature Golf
In 1927, Garnet Carter built the first miniature golf
course on Lookout Mountain in Tennessee. He did so as an attempt to draw
traffic and attention to his popular hotel and its accompanying full-length
regulation golf course. After a while, the miniature course had become so
popular, more people wanted to play on it than on the regulation greens.
Carter accommodated their requests, charging a greens fee for this course as
well.
While his little project was a great success, the
deluge of people caused so much traffic that the miniature grounds were
trampled on until it was unplayable. Carter, ever the businessman, secured
rights to a vegetable fiber surface and installed this for his patrons to
play on. The ability to provide a durable surface encouraged a slew of
entrepreneurs to open miniature golf courses throughout the west into
California as well as the Northeast. In fact, by the fall of 1930, more than
25 million people were miniature golf fans.
The popularity of miniature golf seemed to lie in the
fact that so much of it was dependent upon sheer luck instead of necessarily
having to have skill - with beginners often having a viable chance of
defeating seasoned duffers. NOW YOU KNOW... |
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