The Lounge

Random Trivia Part II

I question how true some of these “facts” are, but they are fun to think about.

The first song played on Armed Forces Radio during operation Desert Shield was “Rock the Casbah” by the Clash.
The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off, could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
The average sixty minute audio cassette tape has 562.5 feet of tape in it, nearly two football fields long
The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.
Assuming Rudolph was in front, there are 40,320 ways to arrange the other eight reindeer.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
Robert E. Lee, of the Confederate Army, remains the only person, to date, to have graduated from the West Point military academy without a single demerit.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies
Pinocchio is Italian for “pine eyes.”
If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.
Most Americans’ car horns beep in the key of F. The telephone dial tone is also in the key of F.
Ralph Lauren’s original name was Ralph Lifshitz.