12 July 2009

Curiosities #6

Who is the only playwright ever to have 5 plays on Broadway at the same time?
Answer: Shakespeare (according to John W. Campbell editorial in Analog 1965)

For what were Sir Henry Royce and Charlie Rolls famous, besides their car?
Royce had the first colostomy ever performed in England, and Rolls on 7/10/1910 became the first Englishman to die in an aeroplane crash.

The ten best-selling paperback children's books of 1990:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Final Lesson
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The First Battle
New Kids on the Block
Mary Anne and Too Many Boys
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie Storybook
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Six-Guns and Shurikens
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Buried Treasure
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Red Herrings
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Sky High

The smallest fish ever to win a competition was a smelt weighing one-sixteenth of an ounce, caught by Peter Christian at Buckingham Ferry, England, Jan 9, 1977. Christian beat 107 other competitors who failed to catch anything.

Mats Wermelin, 13, of Sweden scored all 272 points in a 272-0 victory during a regional boys' basketball tournament in Stockholm Feb 5, 1974.

What word can be used as a measure of length, area, or volume?
A "perch" can be 5.5 yards (a rod), 30.25 square yards, or 24.75 cubic feet.

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