Further Exploration of the Factorium

Thursday, January 20, 2011

I Didn't Know Zat! # 7

1. John F Kennedy won a Pulitzer Prize in 1957 for his book 'Profiles In Courage' and is the only US president to do so.


2. Wings, a 1927 silent movie about World War I fighter pilots, is the only silent movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture.


3. There are exactly 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 (approx. Forty Three Quintillion) permutations for a Rubik's Cube!



4. Bock's Car is the name of the US Army Air Forces B-29 Bomber that dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki.


5. Indiana Jones was named after George Lucas' pet dog.


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