AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING CLXII

1. Hurricane Bob in 1979 was not a particularly destructive storm, but it stands out as the first ""HIMicane". Until Bob, all hurricanes were given women's names.  

2. A one-block stretch of Ninth Ave. between 15th and 16th Streets in Manhattan is named Oreo Way. The first Oreo cookies were manufactured in 1912 in the former Nabisco headquarters on that block.

3. Mozambique is the only country in the world whose name contains all five vowels.

4. Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.

5. More than half of the entire US coastline is in Alaska.

6. The national anthem of Spain has no words.

7. The cardinal is the state bird of seven US states.

8. Newly-elected Pope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) graduated from Villanova University in Pennsylvania in 1977 with a BS degree in mathematics.