Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time.
There is about 200 times more gold in the world’s oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can\'t sink in quicksand.
The name of the Vulcan\'s heaven is Sha Ka Ree, this is a play on the name Sean Connery who was considered for the part of Sarek, Spock\'s father.
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards.
The first time the word "hell" was spoken on TV was in an original "STAR TREK" episode entitled "City on the Edge of Forever". The exact quote was "...let\'s get the hell out of here...", spoken by William Shatner.
From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
Roosters can\'t crow if they can\'t fully extend their necks.
If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking their cups.
All of the officers in the Confederate army were given copies of Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, to carry with them at all times. Robert E. Lee, among others, believed that the book symbolized their cause. Both revolts were defeated.
Human hair and fingernails do not continue to grow after death.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
The Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered after his death as a propagator of violence - he invented dynamite.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
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.
James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.
Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.
In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an \'ugly\' potato, it was the custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man.
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.
The magic word "Abracadabra" was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.
The \'Hundred Years War\' lasted 116 years.
The first inter-racial kiss on TV was in an original "STAR TREK" episode entitled "Plato\'s Stepchildren". The kiss was between Nichelle Nichols and William Shatner.
No animal, once frozen solid (i.e., water solidifies and turns to ice) survives when thawed, because the ice crystals formed inside cells would break open the cell membranes. However there are certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen. These frogs make special proteins, which prevent the formation of ice (or at least keep the crystals from becoming very large), so that they actually never freeze even though their body temperature is below zero Celsius. The water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon known as \'supercooling.\' If you disturb one of these frogs (just touching them even), the water in them quickly freezes solid and they die.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary.
The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eyes."
Most Americans\' car horns beep in the key of F.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That\'s the opposite of the norm.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never phoned his wife or his mother. They were both deaf.
Soweto in South Africa was derived from SOuth WEst TOwnship.
The car manufacturer Henry Ford was awarded Hitler\'s Supreme Order of the German Eagle.
The Andy Griffth Show was the first spin-off in TV history. It was spun-off from the Danny Thomas Show.
On 15 April 1912 the SS Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage and over 1,500 people died. Fourteen years earlier a novel was published by Morgan Robertson which seemed to foretell the disaster. The book described a ship the same size as the Titanic which crashes into an iceberg on its maiden voyage on a misty April night. The name of Robertson\'s fictional ship was the Titan.
Walt Disney\'s autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.
Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that have blue eyes.
There were no squirrels on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts until 1989.
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
While at Havard University, Edward Kennedy was suspended for cheating on a Spanish exam.
Barbie\'s full name is Barbra Millicent Roberts.
Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
Residents of the island of Lesbos are Lesbosians, rather than Lesbians. (Of course, lesbians are called lesbians because Sappho was from Lesbos.)
The Chinese ideogram for \'trouble\' depicts two women living under one roof\'.
It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down -- hence the statement "to get fired."
The childrens\' nursery rhyme \'Ring-a-Round-The-Rosies\' actually refers to the Black Death which killed about 30 million people in the fourteenth-century.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore a band-aid in every episode. Either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing.
Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan carries the designation M-1, named so because it was the first paved road anywhere.
Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.
Ralph Lauren\'s original name was Ralph Lifshitz.
Lizzie Borden was acquitted.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene\'s Wild Kingdom."
Cat urine glows under a black light.
Chrysler built B-29\'s that bombed Japan. Mitsubishi built the Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
On the new one hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte.
Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Hindu men believe(d) it to be unluckily to marry a third time. They could avoid misfortune by marrying a tree first. The tree ( his third wife ) was then burnt, freeing him to marry again.
The province of Alberta in Canada has been completely free of rats since 1905.
Melanie Griffith\'s mother is actress Tippi Hendren, best known for her lead role in Alfred Hitchcock\'s The Birds.
Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill \'if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee\'. His reply \' if you were my wife, I would drink it!\'
142857 is a cyclic number, the numbers of which always appear in the same order but rotated around when multiplied by any number from 1 to 6. 142857 * 2 = 285714 142857 * 3 = 428571 142857 * 4 = 571428 142857 * 5 = 714285 142857 * 6 = 857142
King Kong is the only movie to have its sequel (Son of Kong) released the same year (1933).
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam." Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson." Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott."
Chop-suey is not a native Chinese dish, it was created in California by Chinese immigrants.
John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
A dragonfly has a lifespan of twenty-four hours.
A ten-gallon hat holds three-quarters of a gallon.
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
It\'s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
"Evian" (the bottled water) spelled backwards is "naive."
Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
There are four cars and eleven light posts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
