- An ant has five noses.
- The T.I.D. often found on a doctor's prescription stands for "ter in die," a Latin term meaning "three times a day."
- The home team must provide a referee with 24 footballs for each National Football League game.
- In colonial Boston, schoolteachers earned about seven cents a day.
- Giraffes can not swim.
- The real name of television's Mr. Ed was Bamboo Harvester.
- Jim Hogg, the governor of Texas from 1891 to 1895, named his only daughter Ima Hogg.
- Actor Stewart Granger was born James Stewart.
- Cats can't taste sweet things.
- The Bank of America was originally called The Bank of Italy.
- Lloyd Copeland is credited with the initial development of the microwave oven. His granddaughter is Linda Ronstadt.
- An adult's skin weighs approximately six pounds.
- Only right-handed players can play polo according to the U.S. Polo Association. To date, only 3 players on the world circuit are left-handed.
- France's King Louis XIV bathed only once a year.
- Jimi Hendrix was working on the song The Story of Life the night he died.
- Most surveys say that the least-liked vegetable is the turnip.
- Most snakes can go without eating for a whole year.
- Tombstones were first placed on plots over the dead so that the deceased could not come out and harm the living.
- Hockey is called shinny in Scotland.
- There are 88 keys on a piano--52 white and 36 black.
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