The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.
If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights.
The first drive-in service station in the United States was opened by Gulf Oil Company on December 1, 1913, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to a royal birth in Great Britain.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"
7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
Cats sleep about 16 to 18 hours per day.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired".
Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
Karaoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
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 first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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