After a trillion comes a quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion, undecillion, duodecillion, tredecillion, quattuordecillion, and quindecillion.
Duke Snider's first name was Edwin.
An 1875 swarm of Rocky Mountain Locusts measured 100 miles across and 1,800 miles long crossed the American Midwest. It was estimated to include 3.5 trillion insects. By 1902, the species was extinct.
Mariners used to call sharks sea dogs.
There are only about 700 Samaritans. No one knows how many are good.
St. Olav's Church, in Tallinn, Estonia, was the world's tallest building from 1549 to 1625, when it was surpassed by the Strasbourg Cathedral. It currently houses a Baptist church.
"The Haystack" was the name of the brewery that Gerard Heineken bought in 1864.
Max Factor, Sr. got his start as a makeup man for the Royal Ballet in Czarist Russia.
Brett Favre passed for more than 35 miles in his NFL career. Only he and Dan Marino threw for more than 30.
Apollo 11 landed on the lunar surface at 1:40 p.m. on July 20, 1969, but Neil Armstrong did not actually set foot on the moon until 7:56 p.m.
A $100 billion note in Zimbabwe is worth about $1.00 U.S. That makes anyone with an American penny a billionaire.
If it was an independent nation, California would be the #2 largest consumer of gasoline in the world, trailing only the rest of the U.S.
In Iran, the old "thumbs up," known there as the bilakh, has a similar meaning to the middle finger in America.
Discount retailer TJ Maxx is called TK Maxx in the U.K.
Southern Mississippi was the only only Division I college to recruit Brett Favre. They recruited him as a defensive back.
Cloudy apple juice is healthier than clear juice.
There are 30,000 wild parakeets in London.
It was a dye made from madder root that made the British redcoats so red.
Some roaches can fly.
When the British talk about Tories, they are talking about the Conservative and Unionist Party. Thus, in the U.K., the Unionist Party is the opponent of the Labour Party.
Lionel was the middle name of the model train company's founder, Joshua Cowen.
Orville was the Wright brother who piloted the first motorized manned flight.
Neil Armstrong's moon landing took place while the one-hit wonder band's Thunderclap Newman held the #1 spot on the U.K. pop charts with a song called "Something in the Air." The week after the landing, it fell from the top spot.
A piece of eight was legal tender until 1857.
The world's largest airport is in the Arabian Desert. Riyadh Airport covers 87 square miles in Saudi Arabia.
You are far more likely to die in a car accident during the afternoon rush hour, than during the morning rush hour.
The moon was about three meters closer to the Earth when John McCain was born.
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.
Byzantine Emperor Justinian I was a victim and survivor of the bubonic plague that killed half of his people in the 540s Plague of Justinian.
Two of the National League's eight charter members — the Chicago Cubs fka the Chicago White Stockings and the Atlanta Braves fka the Boston Red Stockings the Chicago White Stockings, now known as the Chicago Cubs, and the Boston Red Stockings — are still in play.
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