Some hotels in Las Vegas have gambling tables floating in their swimming pools.
Scotch tape has been used as an anti-corrosive shield on the Goodyear Blimp.
During World War I, cigarettes were handed out to soldiers with their rations.
The male moose sheds its antlers every winter and grows a new set the following year.
Back in the mid- to late 1980s, an IBM-compatible computer wasn’t considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft’s Flight Simulator.
A Boeing 747’s wingspan is longer than the distance of the Wright brothers’ first flight.
General Lew Wallace’s bestseller “”Ben-Hur”” was the first work of fiction to be blessed by a pope.
The phrase “”three-dog night,”” attributed to Australian Aborigines, came about because on especially cold nights, these nomadic people needed three dogs around them to keep from freezing.
Sheep’s milk is used to produce Roquefort cheese.
Ninety-four percent of all households in Belgium with children under the age of 14 years old own Lego products.
In Kansas, it is against the law to catch fish with your bare hands.
