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Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
A bowling pin need tilt only 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.
The right side of a boat was called the starboard side because astro-navigators used to stand on the plank (on the right side of the ship) to get an unobstructed view of the stars. The left side was called the port side, because that was the side you put in on at the port. This was so they didn't knock off the starboard!
The Japanese word ""Arigato"" meaning thank you is derived from the Portuguese word ""Obrigado."" Portugal once had a thriving trade with Japan.
The bubbles in Guinness beer sink to the bottom rather than float to the top like all other beers. No one knows why.
Jupiter's core is in fact made of a non-metal, but due to the immense pressure inside Jupiter, the core has become a metal. This metal is hydrogen.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year. When it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of the books that would occupy the building.
A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
When opossums are ""playing 'possum,"" they are not ""playing."" They actually pass out from sheer terror.
Every male over 18 is considered part of the Arizona Militia according to state constitution.
The word ""karate"" means ""empty hand.""
Four people played Darth Vader: David Prowse was his body, James Earl Jones the voice, Sebastian Shaw his face, and a fourth person did the breathing.
A hamlet is a village without a church and a town is not a city until it has a cathedral.
49.6% of U.S. residents live in the Eastern time zone, 29.3% in Central, 5.3% in Mountain, 15.0% in Pacific, and .8% in any other time zone.
Texas is the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways dates from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
The first song played on Armed Forces Radio during operation Desert Shield was ""Rock the Casbah"" by the Clash.
The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that enables planes to take off, could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
If you told someone that they were one in a million, you'd be saying there were about 1,800 of them in China.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The average sixty minute audio cassette tape has 562.5 feet of tape in it, nearly two football fields long.
The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.
The ""save"" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.
Assuming Rudolph was in front, there are 40,320 ways to arrange the other eight reindeer.
The fingerprints of koalas are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
Robert E. Lee, of the Confederate Army, remains the only person to date to have graduated from the West Point military academy without a single demerit.
Croatia was the first country to recognize the United States in 1776.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
There are only 14 blimps in the world, and 10 of them are in the U.S.
Pinocchio is Italian for ""pine eyes.""
If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.
Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.
The telephone dial tone is also in the key of F.
Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz.
Lizzie Borden was acquitted.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of ""Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom.""
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