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Fun Facts

It has occurred to me that as a librarian, voracious reader and general trivia nut, I have an abundance of not overtly useful facts sloshing around in my brain. As I have this new blog and they have gifted me with this free Wiki page, I figured...why not? So, here is the place that will become a repository for all the

quasi-useless information that I have and am still acquiring. Enjoy! 

1.  According to Jeopardy! the gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, AZ, was not as action packed as Hollywood leads us to believe. There were only 34 shots fired in total; a tidy 17 by each side, the Clantons and the Earps. Anyone wanna be my Huckleberry?
2. Delaware was the first state to join the union. Not a particularly astonishing fact, except that it joined on December 7, 1787.  Some 154 years later, the very first attack on American soil was to be at Pearl Harbor, HI (strangely, the last state) on December 7, 1941. Conspiracy theorists unite!
3. The cartoon character Popeye has four nephews; each of whom bears a striking resemblance to our hero. The nephews are named: Peepeye, Pipeye, Poopeye, and Pupeye. I'm strong to the finish cause I eats me spinach.
4. In 1765, the sandwich was invented by John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, who gave the food its name. The Earl used to order roast beef between pieces of toast for a snack while he was at the gaming tables, it allowed him to keep one hand free to play while he ate. (Taken from Mindsay site-verbatim, but this is one of my favorite tidbits).
5. Everyone knows that there is no word in English that rhymes with orange, but also there are no words that rhyme with month, silver, and purple.
6. There are only four words in English that end in -dous: hazardous, tremendous, horrendous, stupendous. Also, there are only three words in English that begin with dw-: dwindle, dwell, dwarf.
7. There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar: period, comma, colon, semi-colon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parentheses, braces and ellipses.
8. Only two words in English feature all five vowels in order: abstemious and facetious. And only one word in English ends in the letters -mt: dreamt.
9. Some typing trivia, the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand: stewardesses. The longest word that can be typed with only the right hand: lollipop. The longest word than can be typed using only a single row on the keyboard: typewriter.
10. A jiffy is an actual unit of time, equal to 1/100th of a second.