Guinness World Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
The word curfew originates from an old French word that means “”cover fire.””
The Eskimo language has more than 20 words to describe different kinds of snow.
In 1825, the first toilet was installed in the White House.
An octopus will eat its own arms if it gets really hungry.
Built in 1697, the Frankford Avenue Bridge, which crosses Pennypack Creek in Philadelphia, is the oldest U.S. bridge in continuous use.
A wind with a speed of 74 mph or more is designated a hurricane.
Jellyfish are comprised of more than 95 percent water and have no brain, heart or bones and no actual eyes.
Tommy Lee Jones and former Vice President Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard University.
The Academy Award statue is named after a librarian’s uncle. One day Margaret Herrick, librarian for the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, made the remark that the statue looked like her uncle Oscar, and the name stuck.
Ralph Lauren’s real name is Ralph Lifshitz.
It takes 24 hours for a tiny newborn swan to peck its way out of its shell.
In the Rhode Island Legislature during the 1970s, it was proposed that there be a tax of $2 on every act of sexual intercourse.
The term “”honeymoon”” is derived from the Babylonians, who declared mead, a honey-flavored wine, the official wedding drink, stipulating that the bride’s parents be required to keep the groom supplied with the drink for the month following the wedding.
