Fun Facts

Fun Facts¹ provides RocWiki with a lists of strange, odd, interesting, or otherwise "FUN" facts about the Rochester area. Here is a place to link in odd pages that just don't fit in any other category, or point to pages with a "Fun Fact" in context.

Also see (or contribute to) the Oddities, Strange News, Interesting Pages, Interesting Pages List, and Weird Local Pronunciations. Some material here may be duplicative because other pages may be alphabetical or otherwise "Organized".

I DID NOT KNOW THAT

• Fuzzy pipe cleaner - invented in Rochester
  

• Henry Roughton Hogg - Rochester bookplate collector
  

• Cool Houses -
  

• R2D2 Mailbox - Star Wars mailbox on Rochester street
  

• Surfing the Great Lakes - yes, really !!
  

• Team Sasquatch - Penfield High School with spirit
  

• The Flyin Dutchman - somebody likes this truck ??
  

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THAT IS ODD

• Fine Recording Studio - 30 years of Rochester Music (1947-77) History winds up in Australia
  

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REALLY WEIRD STUFF

• Conedom - invented by a Rochestarian
  

• Spook Hill - near Canandaigua Lake
  

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SHALL WE LAUGH OR CRY

• CATS - The Not So Fast Ferry - what more needs be said.
  

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• Humor - fun stuff that did not fit this page as the words Jokes or Humor did not appear here before

Notes and References

• one of Letterman's Fun Facts Videos of many on YouTube.com