All swans and all sturgeons in England are property of the Queen. Messing with them is a serious offense. Michael Di Lorenzo,
who plays Eddie Torres on New York Undercover is one of the lead dancers in Michael Jackson's "Beat It" video.
Only two people signed the Decleration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles
Thomson. Most of the rest signed on Augest 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 year later.
October 4, 1957 is a historic date to be remembered, it is the day both "Leave it to Beaver" and
the Russian satellite Sputnik 1 were launched.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
The antifungal, nystatin,
which is sometime used for treating thrush, is named after New York State Institute for Health (Acronym)
QANTAS, the name of the Australian national airline, is a (former) acronym, for Queensland And Northern
Territories Air Service.
The world's largest four-faced clock sits atop the Allen-Bradley plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
The first video ever played on MTV Europe was "Money For Nothing" by Dire Straits.
If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050
The "Grinch" singer and voice
of Tony the Tiger is a charming man named Thurl Ravenscroft.
The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually intended to represent the first letter ("shin," pronounced "sheen") of the word "shalom." As a
small boy, Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and never forgot it; eventually he was able to add it to "Star Trek" lore.
The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
Ham radio
operators got the term "ham" coined from the expression "ham-fisted operators", a term used to describe early radio users who sent Morse code (i.e. pounded their fists).
While the Chinese invented gunpowder, they were not the first to develop firearms.
Sam Colt invented the "revolving pistol." Therefore, all revolvers are correctly called pistols.
A 12 gauge "rifled slug"
does not spin, even though there are grooves on it's bearing surface. A slug actually travels like a dart.
Revolvers cannot be silenced, due all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the
barrel.
A bullet fired from the 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge (also called the .308 Winchester) is still supersonic at 1000 yards.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific.
When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole
9 yards."
The home team must provide the referee with 24 footballs for each National Football League game.
The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.
A flea expert is a pullicologist.
A bear has 42 teeth.
M&M's stands for the last names of Forrest Mars, Sr., then candymaker, and his associate Bruce Murrie.
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 105.6 miles per hour.
In Irian Jaya exists a tribe of tall, white people who use parrots
as a warning sign against intruders.
In the Dutch province of Twente people live on average half a year shorter than in the rest of the Netherlands.
Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise.
This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties in
climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.
Duddley DoRight's horse was named "Horse."
If the Spaceship Earth ride at EPCOT was a golf ball, to be the proportional size to hit it, you'd be two miles tall.
On Sesame Street, Bert's goldfish were named Lyle
and Talbot, presumably after the actor Lyle Talbot.
The word "hangnail" comes from Middle English: ang- (painful) + nail. Nothing to do with hanging.
Louis IV of France had a stomach the size of two regular stomachs.
Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain smoked forty cigars a day for the last years of his life.
Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835
when Haley's Comet came into veiw. When he died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.
Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the
child reaches 2-6 years of age.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic
bomb), your birthplace was listed as a post office box in Albuquerque.
Robert Kennedy was killed in the Ambassador Hotel, the same hotel that housed Marilyn Monroe's first modelling agency.
Ronald Regan sent out the army phoyographer who first discovered Marilyn Monroe.
Carbonated water, with nothing else in it, can dissolve limestone, talc, and many other low-Moh's hardness minerals.
Coincidentally, carbonated water is the main ingredient in soda pop.
Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.
The newest dog breed is the Bull Boxer, first bred in the United states in 1990-91.
The first hard drives available for personal computers had a capacity of 5 megabytes and cost over $2,000 (check out a 1980 Radio
Shack catalog!).
South of Tucson, Arizona, all road signs are in the Metric System.
In many cases, the amount of storage space on a recordable CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650
megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes
