AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING XCIV

1. Toto, Dorothy's dog in the 1939 classic movie, The Wizard of Oz, was a female Cairn Terrier named Terry. She was paid a $125 salary each week, which was more than some of the human actors. The Singer Midgets who played the Munchkins reportedly earned $50-100 per week. 

2. Salmon are anadromous fish - which means they live in both fresh and salt water. They are born in fresh water where they spend a few months to a few years (depending on the species) before moving out to the ocean. They return to fresh water to spawn - and die. Sturgeon are also anadromous and follow the same pattern as salmon, but they do not die after they spawn. Sturgeon can live to be 100 years old, grow to up to 20 feet long, and weigh more than 1,000 pounds.

3. The chance of making two holes-in-one in a round of golf are about 1 in 67,000,000.

4. One raindrop requires one million cloud droplets.

5. In 1961, in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the painting "Le Bateau" by Matisse hung upside down for 47 days.

6. People who use cell phones are 2 1/2 times more likely to develop cancer in areas of the brain contiguous to the ear on the side they talk on.

7. In the late 1950's, Japan and the (then) Soviet Union banned the Hula Hoop. Japan thought the rotating hip action indecent, and the Soviet Union called it an an example of the "emptiness of American culture." 

8. In the "Peanuts" comic strip, Charlie Brown's father was a barber. (Charles Shultz's father was also a barber.)

9. The largest recorded earthquake in U.S. history was 9.2 on the Richter Scale in Prince William Sound, Alaska on March 27, 1964.

10. In Hershey, Pennsylvania, the street lights on Chocolate Avenue are in the shape of Hershey's Kisses.