Random Thoughts V4.0

The word “set” has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

The state with the longest coastline in the US is Michigan.

We will have four consecutive full moons making two blue moons in 1999 (January 2 and 31, March 2 and 31.) The only other time it happened this century was in 1915 (January 1 and 31, March 1 and 31.)

The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California.

The first man to sail solo around the world was Joshua Slocum, who couldn't swim.

It took 20,000 men 22 years to build the Taj Mahal.

Vincent Van Gogh painted a picture every day for the last 70 years of his life.

If you stand at the bottom of a well you would be able to see the stars even in the middle of the day.

STASI, the East German secret police, managed to duplicate the scent of a female dog in heat and apply it to the shoes of people they had under surveillance. If they needed to track them down, they just had to let some male dogs follow the scent.

Arnold Schwarzenegger began his transition from Austrian bodybuilder into an American film star when he made his screen debut in 1970 under the name “Arnold Strong” in “Hercules Goes Bananas.”