AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING CXXV

1. 200 feral cats roam the grounds of Disneyland where they help control the park's rodent population. They're all spayed and neutered and the park's staff provides them with both extra food and medical care.

2. Despite the optical illusion, the Gateway Arch is exactly as wide as it is tall (630 ft.).

3. Staff members of the Slovak and Slovenian embassies meet once a month to exchange incorrectly addressed mail.

4. Spiders recycle their webs by eating them.

5. Winston Churchill's mother was born in Brooklyn.

6. The Library of Congress pays to produce popular magazines in Braille.

7. "Gunsmoke" - airing 1955-1975 - led the TV ranks for most episodes (635), but has been eclipsed by the "The Simpsons" - since 1989 - at 768 episodes.

8. Ten times more people bite other people than the number of world-wide shark bites in a year.

9. It took the editors of the first OED (Oxford English Dictionary) 5 years to reach the word ANT.

10. The sound of the roaring lion over the MGM logo is actually the roar of a tiger.