Trivia and Amazing Facts 21-01-08

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• The longest English word consisting entirely of consonants (and not including "y" as a vowel) is the word "crwth" which is from the fourteenth century and means crowd.

• What's billed as the world's largest weather vane sits on the shores of White Lake in Montague, Michigan. It's 48 feet tall with a 26-foot wind arrow and adorned with a 14-foot replica of a 19th-century Great Lakes schooner.

• The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

• HOW THICK IS THE CRUST OF THE EARTH? Sometimes likened to the shell that covers an egg, the layer of rock that covers the surface of the earth is, on average, 22 miles thick.

• WHO SHOPLIFTS MORE OFTEN - MEN OR WOMEN? For this crime, women outnumber men by four or five to one.

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