Four is the only number in the English language in which the number of letters matches the value.
The film version of “”Oliver Twist”” had its name changed to “”Lost Child in Foggy City”” when it was shown in China.
The national flower of Greenland is the willow herb.
Horses race clockwise in England and counterclockwise in the United States.
Johnny Mathis dubbed Miss Piggy’s singing voice in “”The Muppet Movie.””
There are more than 600 billion possible bridge hands.
The largest apple pie ever baked was 40 feet by 23 feet.
The ancient Romans often paid their taxes in honey.
Eighty-three percent of people hit by lightning are men.
Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of where they grew up.
Seventy-eight percent of pets never travel with their owners.
Queen Elizabeth I had more than 2,000 dresses.
A human hair is 10,000 times thicker than the film of a soap bubble.
Two out of five women in the United States dye their hair.
The little lump of flesh just forward of the ear canal and immediately next to the temple is called a tragus.
The original version “”Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”” had the queen condemned to dance in red-hot iron shoes until she died. Disney changed it to have her falling off a cliff to her death.
As a child, author Beverly Cleary was put into the lowest reading circle in grade school.
The first practical dishwasher was invented by socialite Josephine Cochran in 1893. Her servants had become careless with her fine china, and she didn’t want to wash them herself.