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After Hugh Hefner sold his once-private jet the "Big Bunny," it was employed as part of the commercial fleet belonging to Air Mexico.
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The rotund figure known widely as the Michelin Man has a name: Bibendum.
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The semicolon, as it appears in English today, was used by the ancient Greeks as a question mark.
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From 1942 to 1945, car #3544 of the Orient Express was employed as a French brothel.
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During the early 1800s, a number of banks, operating under State or Federal charters and which hired private contractors to print their currency, legally issued three-dollar bills.
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Ellen Cooperman, owner of a feminist film company, was turned down in 1978 by the New York State Supreme Court to have her last name legally changed to "Cooperperson."
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Sales records from Domino's Pizza indicate that on the day The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia died, orders for mushroom-topped pizzas went up 61 percent.
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"Every once in a blue moon" occurs approximately every 33 months, when two full moons appear in the same calendar month.
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Giraffes have no vocal cords.
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The salt contained in all of the world's oceans could cover the United States in a layer a mile and a half thick. |
