In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more that a hundred years before either moon was discovered!
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original 'Halloween' was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
One out of 20 people have an extra rib.
All polar bears are left handed
A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
In the original version of Cinderella the slipper was made out of fur, not glass!
Albert Einstien never wore any socks.
Rapper LL Cool J's name is short for ‘Ladies Love Cool James’.
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
Jimmy Carter is the first U.S. President to have been born in a hospital.
There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month.
Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.
A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
We blink 25 times a minute.
At birth, a panda bear is smaller than a mouse.
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
Household bleach is the recommended chemical to decontaminate people exposed to the anthrax virus, by the U.S. F.D.A. .