AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING LXIV

1. The extra little pocket in Levi's jeans was not originally intended for coins, but as extra protection for pocket watches.

 

2. The small hole at the end of a pan or pot handle was not originally designed for hanging. Its original purpose was to hold a spoon or spatula over the pan or pot itself to prevent a mess on the stove top.

3. Bloomsday is June 16, the day on which Leopold Bloom wanders through Dublin in James Joyce's novel Ulysses. It is celebrated annually by Joyce fans in Dublin and throughout the world.

4. Ownership of Tierra del Fuego, an archipelago off the tip of SouthAmerica, is divided between Argentina and Chile.

5. English figure skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean revolutionized the sport of ice dancing. At the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, they won a gold medal and an unprecedented perfect score of 6.0 for artistic expression from all nine judges.

6. The Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, has the world's largest collections of Salvador Dali's works.

7. The Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, Georgia is the largest aquarium in the world. It features more than 100,000 sea creatures in 6.3 million gallons of water.

8. Zymurgy, the branch of chemistry that deals with fermentation, wine-making, and brewing is the last word in many standard English dictionaries.