● Australia is the only continent without an active volcano.
● The full name of Spanish painter Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) was Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech. By Spanish tradition, this includes the surnames of both his father (Dalí) and his mother (Domènech).
● Clocks did not have minute hands until 1577.
● Shirley Temple, the toast of Hollywood in the 1930s, began her acting career in 1931 at age three. Her trademark curls were styled by her mother and manager, Gertrude Temple, who always ensured that Shirley's locks consisted of 56 curls.
● In St. Louis, Missouri, the law prohibits firefighters from rescuing undressed women or women wearing a nightgown.
● A funambulist is a tightrope walker. The word comes from funambule, which is French for, you guessed it, tightrope walker. Funambule comes from the Latin words funis (rope) and ambulare (to walk or stroll).
● The International Space Station orbits at an average of 240 miles above the Earth.
● The state fish of Hawaii is the Reef Triggerfish (Rhinecanthus rectangulus) or, in the Hawaiian language, humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa (pronounced humu-humu-nuku-nuku-wa-pu-we-uh). The English translation is "triggerfish with a snout like a pig."
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