Trivia and Amazing Facts 03-07-08

• An oven used for heating pottery is called a "muffle."

• Anything described as "saurian" is much like a lizard.

• The first college on record to use the word "campus" to describe its grounds was Princeton. "Campus" is Latin for "field."

• Not used as often as it once was, a "springe" is a snare consisting of a noose attached to something under tension, as a bent tree branch.

• As of 1976, there were 110,200,000 TV sets in America, 372,000,000 radios, and 125,142,000 telephones.

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