- Most lipstick contains fish scales.
- Dr. Seuss pronounced his name “Zoice”.
- Slugs have four noses.
- Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.
- About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.
- There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.
- There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
- Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That is more than sharks.
- The international telephone dialling code for Antarctica is 672.
- The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
- The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.
- If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
- The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA”.
- IBM’s motto is “Think”. Apple later made their motto “Think different”.
- The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
- One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is.
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