The first sworn female police officer in the United States, Alice Stebbins Wells of Los Angeles, had to design and sew her own uniform when she began serving in 1910.
The restrictions on those “”do not remove under penalty of law”” mattress tags don’t apply to the owner, but to the retailer.
It takes 52 letters to spell out all the values (Ace, Two, Three, etc.) in a regular deck of 52 playing cards.
The Detroit Lions are the oldest-existing NFL franchise to have never appeared in the Super Bowl.
The first self-adhesive stamp in the United States was a special “”Peace on Earth”” holiday issue from 1974. The glue didn’t stick, and the experiment was deemed a failure.
The first president to throw the first pitch at a Major League Baseball game was William Howard Taft.
Major U.S. Interstate numbers generally follow a pattern: odd-numbered ones run north and south, while even-numbered ones travel east and west.
The address number of Big Bird’s nest is 123 1/2.
Mapmakers often add a nonexistent street with a fake name to a city map to prevent others from illegally reproducing them.
Ping-Pong balls are not hollow. They are filled with small amount of pressurized gas, which prevents them from breaking too easily.
Of the 30 highest-grossing films in American history, “”Star Wars,”” released in 1977, is the oldest movie on the list.
It’s known as the Plough in Britain and the Casserole in France. Here, we call it the Big Dipper.
Phoenix is the most populous state capital, and the only one home to more than one million residents.
Half of America’s state flags have a background of some shade of blue.
The average supermarket carries between 40,000 and 50,000 items.
Only about one in 2,000 babies is born with an exposed tooth.
In 1972, the FBI arrested a small group of criminals who had discovered a way to tap into free long-distance service using a toy whistle found in boxes of Cap’n Crunch cereal.
