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861/ The brass family of instruments
include the trumpet, trombone, tuba, cornet, flugelhorn, french
horn, saxhorn, and sousaphone. While they are usually made
of brass today, in the past they were made of wood, horn and
glass.
862/ The ruby, sapphire, emerald
and aquamarine are not specific minerals. The ruby is the
red and sapphire is the blue variety of corundum.
863/ The largest number of
burials in the US is carried out at the Calverton National
Cemetery, on Long Island, near Farmingdale, New York. That
cemetery conducts more then 7000 burials each year.
864/ The Dutch used lotteries
to raise money for New York's poor as early as 1655.
865/ Coke started to use aluminium
cans in 1967. The first company to use them however was Royal
Crown Cola in 1964.
866/ A person uses more household
energy shaving with a hand razor at a sink (because of the
water pump, the water power etc) then he would by using an
electric razor.
867/ The average American's
diet today consists of 55% junk food.
868/ Adults spend an average
of 16 times as many hours selecting clothes (145.6 hours)
as they do on planning their retirement.
869/ An Animal Hospital Association
showed that 33 percent of dog owners admit that they talk
to their dogs on the phone or leave messages on an answering
machine while away.
870/ A Dutch study indicated
that 50 percent of the adult Dutch population have never flown
in an airplane, and 28 percent admitted a fear of flying.
871/ A fourth of the population
in metropolitan Detroit cliams German heritage, a million
people in Michigan as a whole.
872/ About 43 million years
ago, the Pacific plate took a Northwest turn, creating a bend
where new upheavals initiated the Hawaiian Ridge. Major Islands
formed including Kauai, 5.1 million years old, Maui, 1.3 million
years old, and Hawaii, a youngster at only 800,000 years old.
873/ As well as St. Paul's
Cathedral, Sir Christopher Wren built fifty-one other churches
in London between 1670 and 1711.
874/ Barking Sands Beach on
the Hawaiian island of Kauai is known for its unusual sand
that squeaks or 'barks like a dog'. The dry sand grains emit
an eerie sound when rubbed with bare feet.
875/ Bermuda has the highest
per capita income in the world outside of the oil sheikdoms.
876/ Antacrtica's inhabitants
number about 1,000 people in winter and about 2,000 in Summer.
More people fill a football stadium for one game than have
ever been to Antarctica, which is nearly twice the size of
the United States. In fact, the Ross Ice Shelf, hundreds of
feet thick is about the same size in land area as France.
877/ Arizona has official
state neckwear - the bolo tie.
878/ Bangladesh has more than
1,970 humans per square mile.
879/ Eskimos use wooden glasses
with narrow slits for eyepieces to protect their eyes from
glare reflected by ice and snow.
880/ Hawaii has 150 recognised
ecosystems.
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