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P.T. Barnum did not originate the quip, "There's a sucker born every minute." It was, in fact, a rival entrepreneur who coined the phrase (which ended with "...and none of them ever die.")
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Atari means "warning" in Japanese.
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The ridge running vertically between your nose and your upper lip is known as the "philtrum."
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There are a total of fourteen television sets in Elvis Presley's Graceland.
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Mr. Ed's off-screen name was Bamboo Harvester.
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Chicago, nicknamed "The Windy City," is actually America's 12th windiest city. Mt. Washington, New Hampshire is the windiest.
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Al "Scarface" Capone died of syphilis.
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In order to find their way to the egg, sperm implement their sense of smell.
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At the original Thanksgiving feast, according to many historians, the Pilgrims did not dine on turkey as the legend supposes, but were most likely served a course which included eel, a common dietary item for the Native Americans of that area.
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In 1930, one Professor Aharoni traveled to the Hittite city of Chaleb, where he found a female, golden-colored "mouse" and her thirteen newborn babies. Every hamster in existence today descends from those original 14, and no other has been found in the wild since. |
