AWESOME FACT ABOUT EVERYTHING CLXXVIII

1. In chess, a bishop can not change the color of its square.

2. Like NOON, SWIMS reads the same upside down.

3. Maine has more than 4,000 islands off its coast, only 15 of which support year-round communities - the "Famous Fifteen". 

4. Another mnemonic for the colors of the rainbow - besides ROY G BIV - is Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain. 

5. Yemen was the first major coffee producer and held a virtual monopoly on the global coffee trade for 200 years (15-17th centuries). It prohibited the export of fertile coffee seeds until Dutch smugglers broke the monopoly in the 1700's. 

6. A hole card is a playing card dealt face down.

7. A lavender marriage is one between a man and woman who are LGBT - for the sake of appearance.  

8. Extreme heat - the "silent killer" - is the most dangerous weather-related hazard in the world. It kills more people than hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes combined. 

9. Anne Frank and Martin Luther King, Jr. were both born in 1929.

10. Abraham Lincoln was 12 years old when Napoleon Bonaparte died in 1821.

11. Neil Armstrong was 18 years old when Orville Wright died in 1948 at the age of 76.