? The world’s oldest active parliamentary body is the Icelandic Althing, which first met before the year 1000.
? There are 556 officially recognized American Indian tribes.
? The last time American Green Cards were actually green was 1964.
? America’s only statue of Charles Dickens graces Clark Park in Philadelphia, just off the University of Pennsylvania campus.
? It takes a week to make a jelly bean.
? People from Manchester, England are called Mancunians.
? The milk of a humpback whale is 54 percent fat.
? The two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are named Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.
? The national flower of Greenland is the Willow Herb.
