Further Exploration of the Factorium

Friday, January 7, 2011

Classmate Facts # 129 - Believe Or Not!

1. There are 36 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

2. A 75 year old male driver received ten traffic tickets, drove on the wrong side of the road four times, committed four hit-and-run offenses and caused 6 accidents, all within 20 minutes in McKinney, TX on 15 October 1966. [Worst Driver: G.B. of Records]

3. The Term “The whole 9 yards” came from WW II fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got “the whole 9 yards.”

4. Wilma Flintstone’s maiden name was Shaghoopal.

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