AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING CVI

1. There are 293 way to make change for a dollar. 

2. The Appalachian Trail is the longest hiking-only footpath in the world - stretching 2,198 miles from Georgia to Maine.

3. Tel Aviv means Hill of Spring.

4. The only American football team to go a whole season undefeated, including the Super Bowl, was the Miami Dolphins in 1972. 

5. The official national animal of Scotland is the unicorn.

6. The Guinness Book of World Records credits Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) as the most prolific composer in the history of western music, with over 3,000 works. 

7. The symbol # is called an octothorpe.

8. Jack-O-Lanterns come from Ireland, and were originally carved from turnips.

9. The Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863, was the deadliest battle in U.S. history - 51,000 casualties, 7,863 dead. The bloodiest single day in U.S. history was September 17, 1862 at the Battle of Antietam in Maryland - 22,727 casualties, 3,650 dead. The Civil War was the deadliest war in American history. Altogether, over 600,000 died in the conflict, more than World War I and World War II combined.