Reasons

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In the movie "the Right Stuff" there is a scene where a government recruiter for the Mercury astronaut program (played by Jeff Goldblum) is in a bar at Muroc Dry Lake, California. His partner suggests Chuck Yeager as a good astronaut candidate. Jeff proceeds to bad mouth Yeager claiming they need someone who went to college. During the conversation the real Chuck Yeager is playing a bartender who is standing behind the recruiters eavesdropping. General Yeager is listed low in the movie credits as 'Fred.'

 

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Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

 

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There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

 

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The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopics- ilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters ispneumonoultra-microscopicsilicovol- canoconioses, its plural.

 

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The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatan- gihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokai- whenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.

 

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Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."

 

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A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

 

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An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

 

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Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

 

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After the Civil War the U.S. sued Great Britain for damages that were caused by them building ships for the Confederacy. We originally asked for $1 billion but settled on $25 Million.

 

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There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo.

 

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Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.

 

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There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.

 

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In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

 

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The only Dutch word to contain eight consecutive consonants is 'angstschreeuw'.

 

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Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

 

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The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin.

 

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The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile".

 

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Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.

 

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Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of the distribution of galaxies. In each layer of the map some galaxies are grouped together in such a way that they resemble a human being.

 

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Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.

 

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Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

 

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The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmentarianism".

 

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When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau."

 

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Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth ... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."

 

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when I was a kid I lived next to his great great grand son and family

 

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they were all traders

 

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The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

 

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In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold.

 

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The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady is Edith Fore.