The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
In India, Pajamas are accepted as standard daytime wearing apparel.
The chemicals indole and skatole, which help to account for the particular smell of human feces, are used as ingredients in perfume!
A group of frogs is called an army.
A group of officers is called a mess.
The state with the longest coastline in the U.S. is Michigan.
A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive...so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
