AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING CLVII

1. Babe Ruth played his last major league season in 1935 for the Boston Braves. He played a few games for them after leaving the New York Yankees following the 1934 season.

2. One third of The Netherlands is below sea level.

3. Gretna Green is the Las Vegas of Scotland - known for its tradition of "runaway marriages" dating back to the 18th century. 

4. Sunni Islam is the world's largest religious denomination.

5. Halal and haram are the Muslin equivalent of kosher and non kosher (tref) to Jews.

6. The odds of being dealt a royal flush are 1 in 2,598,960 

7. One of the Three Magi would be a Magus.

8. Charlie Chaplin was essentially deported from the United States during the Red Scare of 1952. The FBI accused him of having Communist sympathies and being "a menace to womanhood." Though all charges were dropped, Chaplin refused to appeal his case. He and his family settled in Switzerland and did not return to the United States for twenty years.

9. Senegal is the western-most country in Africa.

10. Superman's birth name was Kal-El. His adoptive parents on Earth, Martha and Jonathan Kent, gave him the name Clark Kent.