Did You Know

A myriagon is a polygon with 10,000 sides. The Philadelphia Phillies are a baseball team with 10,000 losses.

In Zen Buddhism, the "10,000 Things" is a term meaning all of phenomenal reality. In Philadelphia, the 10,000 losses are all a phenomenal reality.

In Zoology, there are approximately 10,000 species of Birds. In Philadelphia, there are exactly 10,000 species of Phillies losses.

The U.S. Ten Thousand Dollar bill has a picture of Salmon P. Chase. To our knowledge he is not related to Chase C. Utley. Nor is he related to Pittsburgh Pirates' reliever Salomon Torres.


Salmon P. Chase's Barajas number is 5. In addition to being U.S. Treasury Secretary and Chief Justice of the United States, Chase lent his name to Chase Manhattan Bank. The JPMorgan Chase Open in Carson, California is a popular tournament on the WTA Tour. In 2004, the Spanish tandem of Conchita Martínez and Virginia Ruano Pascual were runners up in the doubles tournament to Nadia Petrova and Meghann Shaughn*ssy. Martínez and Pascual's trip to the tournament in Carson, California, originated in Madrid, Spain, with a flight out of Madrid Barajas International Airport. Madrid Barajas International Airport is directly connected to Rod Barajas through the International Brotherhood of Barajas.