MurphyTown Facts Haiku Irish Jokes Laws Legends News Photos Poems Proverbs Quotes Yin Facts Index Top Ten Newest Search Post Prev Fact Fact 3 of 4622 Next Fact The Hollywood sign was first erected in 1923. Conceived as a real estate ad, it originally read Hollywoodland. The sign stands 50 feet tall, stretches 450 feet across, weighs 450,000 pounds. Random Fact Starfish have no brains. If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. FIRST WOMAN IN SPACE: June 16, 1963 On June 16, 1963, aboard Vostok 6, Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman to travel into ... What do you think of this Fact? Vote Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down. Reputation: 4 / Feedback: 0  Site Content compiled in Asheville, NC / Web Hosting by Gigfoot