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Ten Random FactsO'Hare Airport in Chicago was called Orchard Place until 1949, and the airport is still abbreviated "ORD." With an exchange rate running at an average of 428,287.55 Ukrainian Karbovanets to the dollar, total assests of just six American dollars will qualify a person as a Ukrainian millionaire. The campy 1964 sci-fi flick "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians," which featured a young, unknown Pia Zadora as a spunky Martian girl, was filmed in an airplane hangar on Long Island, New York. An alternative to the outdated slang expression “cat's pajamas” was “cat's meow.” Both terms meant that someone or something was wonderful or remarkable. The Roman emperor Commodos collected all the dwarfs, cripples, and freaks he could find in the city of Rome and had them brought to the Coliseum, where they were ordered to fight each other to the death with meat cleavers. The antlers of a male moose can have as many as 30 tines, or spikes. Felix Mendelssohn wrote his most famous overture, "A Midsummer Night's Dream," when he was just seventeen. A "xanthochroid" is a blond-haired and blue-eyed person with fair skin. The star Zeta Thaun, a supernova, was so bright when it exploded in 1054 that it could be seen during the day. The founder of JC Penny had the name of James Cash Penny. More random trivia, or select from the menu on the left to browse.
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