Frunzik (Mher) Mkrtchyan
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Frunzik (Mher) Mkrtchyan Comedic actor
Mher Mkrtchyan was happiest and saddest artist of the Armenian
cinematography and theater:
Arno Babajanian
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Arno Babajanian, Armenian Composer
Arno Babajanian, was distinguished composer of the 20th century, the USSR People’s Artist, the State Awards laureate of Armenia
William Saroyan
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William Saroyan Novelist, Playwright
Won a Pulitzer Prize for the play “The Time of Your Life” which he turned down. Wrote “The Human Comedy”, “My Name is Aram”, and directed a prize winning movie.
Dr. Raymond Damadian
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Dr. Raymond Damadian Inventor
MRI diagnosis machine. Magnetic Resonance Imaging allows the insides of the body to be viewed without actually using surgery.
Eric Bogosian
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Eric Bogosian, Writer/Actor
He was born April 24, 1953 and raised in Woburn, MA. He graduated from Oberlin College. The author of the plays Talk Radio, subUrbia, and Griller, monologist Eric Bogosian also earned acclaim for his three Obie Award-winning one-man performances Drinking in America, Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll and Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead. An actor whose work ranged from appearances in the Steven Seagal action thriller Under Siege 2 to the Woody Allen comedy Deconstructing Harry, Bogosian also dabbled in music, in 1986 collaborating with Frank Zappa on Blood on the Canvas.
Strange but True Facts
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Strange but True Facts
#1 A Goldfish’s attention span is three seconds
#2 Animals that lay eggs dont have belly buttons
#3 Beavers can hold their breathe for 45 minutes under water
#4 Slugs have 4 noses
#5 Camels have 3 eyelids
#6 A honey bee can fly at 15mph
#7 A queen bee can lay 800-1500 eggs per day
#8 A bee has 5 eyes
#9 The average speed of a housefly is 4.5 mph
#10 Mosquitos are attracted to people who just ate bananas
#11 Flamingos are pink because they eat shrimp
#12 Emus and Kangaroos cannot walk backward
#13 Cats have over 100 vocal chords
#14 Camel’s milk does not curdle
#15 All porcupines float in water
#16 The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans 10 to 1
#17 A hummingbird weighs less then a penny
#18 A jellyfish is 95% water
#19 Children grow faster in the spring
#20 Broccoli is the only vegetable that is also a flower
#21 Almonds are part of the peach family
#22 Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work
#23 The San Francisco Cable cars are th only mobile national monument
#24 The state of maine has 62 lighthouses
#25 The only food that does not spoil is honey
#26 The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters
#27 A ball of glass will bounce higher then a ball of rubber
#28 Chewing gum while peeling onions will prevent you from crying
#29 On average a human will spend up to 2 weeks kissing in his/her lifetime
#30 Fish have eyelids
#31 The average human will eat an average of 8 spiders while sleeping
#32 There are one million ants to every human in the world
#33 Termites eat through wood two times faster when listening to rock music!
#34 If you keep a goldfish in a dark room it will eventually turn white
#35 Elephants only sleep 2 hours a day
#36 A duck’s quack doesn’t echo
#37 A snail breathes through it’s foot
#38 Fish cough…
#39 An ant’s smell is stronger then a dog’s
#40 It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down
#41 Shrimp can only swim backward
#42 Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open
#43 A cat’s lower jaw cannot move sideways
#44 The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps
#45 Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles per day
#46 Elephants are the only mammal that cannot jump
#47 Giraffes have no vocal chords
#48 Cats can hear ultrasound
#49 Despite its hump…camel’s have a straight spine
#50 Mosquitos have 47 teeth
#51 There are 63,360 inches in a mile
#52 11% of people in the world are lefthanded
#53 The average women consumes 6lbs of lipstick in her lifetime
#54 The average smell weighs 760 nanograms
#55 A human brain weighs about 3lbs
#56 1/4 of the bones in your body are in your feet
#57 You blink over 10,000,000 times a year
#58 A sneeze travels out of your nose at 100mph
#59 Brain waves can be used to power an electric train
#60 A tongue is the fastest healing part of the body
#61 Pigs get sunburn
#62 The lifespan of a tastebud is 10 days
#63 The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime
#64 Strawberries contain more Vitamin C then oranges
#65 A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion math calculations
#66 Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza a day
#67 There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal cracker zoo
#68 The longest one syllabled word is “screeched”
#69 No word in the english language rhymes with month
#70 A “jiffy” is actually 1/100 of a second
#71 There is a town called “Big Ugly” in West Virginia
#72 The average person uses 150 gallons of water per day for personal use
#73 The average person spends 2 weeks of it’s life waiting for a traffic light to change
#74 You share your birthday with 9 million others in the world
#75 The average person makes 1,140 phone calls per year
#76 The average person spends 2 years on the phone in his/her lifetime
#77 No piece of paper can be folded more then 7 times
#78 Alaska is the most eastern and western state in the US
#79 There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter
#80 About 18% of Animal owners share their bed with their pet
#81 Alaska has more caribou then people
#82 August has the highest percent of births
#83 Googol is a number (1 followed by 100 zeros)
#84 Oysters can change genders back and forth
#85 The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows
#86 Until the 19th century solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia
#87 A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance
#88 A ten gallon hat holds less then one gallon of liquid
#89 The average American walks 18,000 steps a day
#90 The average raindrop falls at 7mph
#91 There are more telephones then people in Washington D.C.
#92 Fish can drown
#93 A Kangaroo can jump 30 feet
#94 Lizards communicate by doing push-ups
#95 Squids can have eyeballs the size of volleyballs
#96 The average American will eat 35,000 cookies in his/her lifetime
#97 A turkey can run at 20mph
#98 When the moon is directly over you, you weigh less
#99 You burn 20 calories an hour chewing gum
#100 In a year, the average person walks 4 miles makeing their bed
#101 About half of all Americans are on a diet at any given time
#102 A one-minute kiss burns 26 calories
#103 Frowning burns more calories then smiling
#104 There are more then 30,000 diets on public record
#105 You will burn 7% more calories walking on hard dirt then pavement
#106 You way less at the top of a mountain then sea level
#107 You burn more calories sleeping then watching TV
#108 Licking a stamp burns 10 calories
#109 Smelling apples and/or bananas can help you loose weight
Andre Agassi
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Andre Agassi Tennis
Ranked #1 in the world in 1995. Has won the Wimbledon, the US Open, the French Open, and an Olympic Gold Medal.
Ivan Aivazovsky
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Ivan Aivazovsky Painter
Famous for his seascapes. Paintings are featured on numerous postage stamps around the world.
Charles Aznavour
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Charles Aznavour Singer
French Singer and Actor with worldwide popularity. Listen to his Greatest Golden Hits, and his Autobiographie