AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING LXXIV

1. Redheads need about 20% more anesthesia to be sedated than those with other hair colors. They also need more local topical anesthetics, such as lidocaine or Novocain - which is why many redheads have a fear of dentists, according to the American Dentistry Association.

2. The $20 bill is the most counterfeited banknote in the United States.

3. One horsepower is the peak production of 15 horses (not one). A 300 horsepower engine is the equivalent of the pulling strength of 20 horses.

 

4. Perhaps because it so ancient and has been cultivated for so long, corn does not grow in the wild. It cannot sow itself. Corn needs humans to plant it. 

 

5. Snickers is the best-selling candy bar in the world. 65% of all the Snickers bars made in North America are produced in the Mars Wrigley Confectionary Plant in Waco, Texas. 15,000,000 bars are made each day, requiring 100 tons of peanuts for each day's production.

 

6. Many U.S. Presidents were musically talented. Thomas Jefferson loved to sing and played the violin, clavichord, and cello. John Quincy Adams was an accomplished flutist and composer. John Tyler almost became a concert violinist, but put it aside for a career in law and politics. Abraham Lincoln played the violin. Woodrow Wilson played violin and sang tenor. Calvin Coolidge played the harmonica. Richard Nixon was a classically trained pianist. Harry Truman played piano. He once said, "My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse, or a  politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference."

7. As of today's date, November 19, 2022, 1 U.S. dollar = 42,400 rial in Iran.

8. All Presidents can be buried at Arlington National Cemetery, yet only two are: William Howard Taft and John F. Kennedy.

9. The guard (also called a sentinel) on duty at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery marches 21 steps down the mat behind the tomb, waits 21 seconds, then turns and waits another 21 seconds, then marches the 21 steps back. This routine represents the highest symbolic military honor: the 21-gun salute.

10. Two of the memorials at Arlington are dedicated to astronauts. Months after the space shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986, the co-mingled remains of all seven crew members were buried there.

The Columbia memorial is dedicated to the seven astronauts lost when that space shuttle exploded in 2003.