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Fast facts: Most American-made car horns beep in the tone of "F." The average American walks 18,000 steps a day. The smallest book in the Library of Congress is "Old King Cole." It is 1/25 of an inch by 1/25 of an inch. The pages can only be turned with the use of a needle. The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. The thirteenth of the month falls on Friday more often than on any other day of the week.

 

On this date: Thursday, September 27, 2001 Toot toot! Visiting relatives got a little easier in 1825 when railroad transportation became available from Stockton to Darlington, England. The 26-mile trip was led by a locomotive and followed by about 30 wagons. Grab your life jacket and hang on. The first great disaster involving an Atlantic Ocean liner occurred in 1854 when the steamship "Arctic" sank with 300 people aboard. Late night television changed forever when "The Tonight Show" debuted on NBC in 1954 with host comedian and writer Steve Allen. The phrase "Man overboard" took on a new meaning in 1989 when Jeffrey Petkovich and Peter DeBernardi became the first two people to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and live to tell about it. The pair went over the 167-foot high Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls.

 

Quotable... "People now realize this violence, this terrible destruction of human life, is not the correct path to follow," -President George W. Bush on how the Mideast has been affected by the Sept. 11 attacks on America