Fun Facts

• "0 & Wine" magazine reported that in Japan, squid is the most popular topping for Domino's pizza

• Student Robert Ricketts, 19, had his head bloodied when he was struck by a Conrail train. He told police he was trying to see how close to the moving train he could place his head without getting hit

• Most toilets flush in E flat

• The @ symbol has become an important part of e-mail culture. It separates the User Name from the Domain Name. All countries throughout the world use the same symbol but it obviously has a different name in other tongues. In English it is simply the 'at' sign.
  Here are just a few of the more endearing terms:
   

  Italy: 'chiocciolina' - which, in Italian, means 'little snail'
  France: 'petit escargot' - also 'little snail'
  Germany: 'klammeraffe' - which means 'spider monkey'.
  Dutch: 'api' - a shortened version of 'apestaart' or 'monkey's tail'.
  Finland: 'miau' or 'cat's tail'.
  Norway: 'kanel-bolle', a spiral shaped cinnamon cake
  Israel: 'shtrudel' - following the pastry concept
  Denmark: 'snabel', an 'A' with a trunk.
  Spain: 'arroba'. the Spanish symbol for a unit of weight of about 25 pounds

• Someone within 200 miles of your town claims to have had direct contact with a monster, ghost or other unexplainable being

• The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons

• In New York State, it is still illegal to shoot a rabbit from a moving trolley car

• Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road

• When christening a ship, instead of using champagne, the Vikings would sacrifice a human being, they thought the spirits of the murdered person would guide and guard the craft