MODULUS XXX.XXX.X.X..X ...X.X..X...X. X.X...XXX.XXX. Geography - Hawaii has more miles of U.S. Interstate than Delaware. - On a per-acre basis, Seward's purchase of Alaska in 1867 was cheaper than the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. San Francisco, CA and Santa Fe, NM are named after the same Catholic saint. - Kaskasia, IL, lies West of the Mississippi River. Chicago's O'Hare Airport's baggage code ORD is a contraction of the word "Orchard." The verb "to orient" has its origins in the fact that in medieval times it was common to have east pointing upwards on maps. Entertainment The name "Daisy" is short for "Margaret"; for instance, Margaret Dumont (famous for the Marx Brothers films) was nicknamed "Daisy." - Bulldogs were so named because they were bred to attack and main bulls in medieval times. A large proportion of the cast and crew of the 1950s film "The Conqueror" (including John Wayne and Agnes Moorehead) contracted cancer, suspected to be from nuclear fallout from the filming location. - The lyrics to the song "Louie Louie" represent the lamentation of a sailor talking to a bartender named Louie. - The purpose of the clapboard used during filming a movie is so that the video can be synchronized with the audio during post-processing. The "Scooby-Doo" characters were based on characters from the '60s sitcom "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis." History The tune for "The Star-Spangled Banner" was taken from an 18th century drinking song. - Chinese water torture was not actually used by ancient Chinese. The Leaning Tower of Pisa leaned north during its first five years of construction, but ever since then the tower has been leaning south. - Julius Caesar was not born by cesarian section. - Queen Elizabeth II and her son Prince Charles do not share the same surname. The astronomer Tycho Brahe wore an artificial nose, the actual one lost in a duel when he was 20. Arts & Literature - The word "tycoon" is one of few English words to come from the Japanese. - During the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's ballet _The Rite of Spring_, the audience was visibly raucous and rowdy. There is a notaional system for human movement called Labanotation that is used by choreographers to record modern dance. - "CMFGYP WBVVKXJ QZ" are the next three columns in the linotype machines used to typeset text, after "ETAOIN SHRDLU." The most famous Sherlock Holmes story, "The Hound of the Baskervilles," was written after the story in which Holmes "dies" but before the story in which Holmes is "resurrected." William Faulkner was actually born with the name "Falkner"; the name change was the result of a typographical error. Science and Nature In the 1970s, most TV remote controls worked by ultrasound. - Most American homes are wired for 240-volt appliances, even though outlets only give 120 volts AC. - Women have the same number of ribs as men do. Ketchup can dissolve alumninum foil. - The Coriolis affect does not cause water to drain clockwise in the Northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. The world's largest rodent is the capybara, which weigh on average 100 pounds. Sports and Leisure The phrase "ain't over until the fat lady sings" was coined in the 1970s by an American sportswriter. - Some major league ballparks do not have home plate in the southwest corner. - Fig Newtons were named after the town of Newton, Massachusetts. - The "G"s in "G-string" and "G-spot" do not stand for the same word. The name "pigskin" for a football originated as a euphemism for "pig's bladder skin". The first pinball machine to have flippers had six of them. Treasure Hunts - The solution to this puzzle involves Braille. - A "true" statement indicates the presence of a "Dot". - Each category encodes one letter in the message. All trivia on this card can be verified within one WWW domain. Exactly half of the statements in each category are false. The categories should be taken in order, from top to bottom.