? The first man to distill bourbon whiskey in the United States was a Baptist preacher, in 1789.
? The Motown female group The Supremes, which dominated the pop charts in the 1960s, was originally called The Primettes.
? The partridge berry is a botanical Siamese twin. Each berry develops from two flowers.
? At last count there were about 226,000 trees in New York City’s Central Park.
? The surface area of the Earth is 197,000,000 square miles.
? The Dominican Republic was called Santo Domingo when it first gained independence.
? Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.
? Only one satellite has ever been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency’s Olympus in 1993.
