The only two days of the year in
which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL)
are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.
Any Rubik's Cube combination can be solved in 17
turns.
Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Mars has a volcano (Olympus Mons) which is 310-370
miles in diameter and 16 miles high.
Adolf
Eichmann (responsible for countless Jewish deaths during World war II),
was originally a travelling salesman for the Vacuum Oil Co. of Austria.
The Statue of Liberty's tablet is two feet thick.
Mountains are formed by a process called orogeny.
The Extensor digiti minimi manus is used to extend
the little finger.
In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for
cheating on their finals.
Kokomo Indiana is the home of canned tomato juice.
The
tallest as well as the heaviest horse ever recorded was a Shire gelding
named "Sampson." He measured 21.2 and one half hands (7 feet 2.5
inches) and weighed 3,360 pounds!
In 1896, Britain and Zanzibar were at
war for 38
minutes.
The statue of liberty is 20 times larger than life.
The Empire State Building is stricken by lightning
more than 50 times per year.
Jimmy Carter was the first president to be born in a
hospital.
Sylvester
Stallone's first movie acting role was in a porn movie, called Party at
Kitty and Stud's. This movie came out in 1970, when Stallone was 24
years old. Stallone was the leading man in this film, and he later
acknowledged in a Playboy interview that he was paid $200 for his
role.
David Alan Grier, Ice Cube, Dave Chappelle and John
Travolta all turned down the offer to play the role of Bubba from
Forrest Gump. Chevy Chase also turned down the role of playing Forrest.
During the filming of "Batman Begins", Christian Bale
lost his voice three times due to altering his voice while playing
Batman.
A single ounce of gold can be beaten into a thin film
covering a hundred square feet.
Americans pay over $30,500 in federal, state, and
local taxes every second.
A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands
of hair a day.
The turkey was wrongly named after what was thought
to be its country of origin.
Stroking the sole of the foot is used by doctor's to
produce the Babinski effect (fan-like extension of the toes).
In August of 1814, the White House burned down and
took three years to rebuild.
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