#63720, BYU "Did You Know"s
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:55 pm
I was rather disappointed in the answers to this question, so I came up with my own list of interesting BYU facts that might be fun to include in a publication for freshmen (which, as I understood it, was what the reader wanted).
1. The Maeser Building was built on the site of an old cemetery.
2. Frank Abignale, the conman on whom the film Catch Me If You Can was based, claims in his autobiography that he taught a sociology course at BYU; however, this claim has not been verified.
3. Library security once called a student to tell him that, unbeknownst to him, he had a broken neck and shouldn't move until emergency services arrived. [Okay, so this isn't so much a BYU fact, but it's a crazy enough story that I wanted to mention it.]
4. In 1960, BYU tuition was only $130 per semester.
5. There was once an extensive collection of dinosaur bones stored underneath the football stadium, but they have since been removed.
6. BYU used to have a small nuclear reactor.
Anyone else have other BYU trivia they would include on the list?
1. The Maeser Building was built on the site of an old cemetery.
2. Frank Abignale, the conman on whom the film Catch Me If You Can was based, claims in his autobiography that he taught a sociology course at BYU; however, this claim has not been verified.
3. Library security once called a student to tell him that, unbeknownst to him, he had a broken neck and shouldn't move until emergency services arrived. [Okay, so this isn't so much a BYU fact, but it's a crazy enough story that I wanted to mention it.]
4. In 1960, BYU tuition was only $130 per semester.
5. There was once an extensive collection of dinosaur bones stored underneath the football stadium, but they have since been removed.
6. BYU used to have a small nuclear reactor.
Anyone else have other BYU trivia they would include on the list?