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901/ No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

902/ Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.

903/ Los Angele's full name is 'El Puebleo de Nuestra Senora la reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula'. And can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its original size 'L.A' - more

904/ When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play American Football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

905/ The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's 'Its a Wonderful Life'.

906/ Steel drums are the only non-electric instrument invented in the 20th century.

907/ The longest musical piece written is Vexations by Erik Satie. It consists of a 180 note composition which must be repeated 840 times. The entire piece takes 18 hours and 40 minutes.

908/ The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

909/ Virginia Woolf wrote all her books standing.

910/ Rabbits cannot vomit.

911/ The Giant Squid has the largest eyes in the world.

912/ The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.

913/ Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name. (Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon in 1969)

914/ It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

915/ Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts".

916/ In the 1983 film 'Jaws 3D' the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were stuffed ET dolls which were being sold at the time.

917/ Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.

918/ Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's maiden name was Betty Jean McBricker.

919/ Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.

920/ Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was played by six different cats.

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