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Brad Pitt was a college dropout from the University of Missouri.
The fastest tennis serves come at you at speeds of about 153 mph.
The bonobo, sister species to the more well known common chimpanzee, was only recognized as a distinct species in 1929. They are still relatively unknown and with an estimated population of only 20,000 left in the wild.
People of Monaco are called Monegasques.
There are four types of wild sheep roaming the earth today: the Urial in South-West Asia, the Argali in Central Asia, the Mouflon in the central islands of the Mediterranean, and the Bighorn in the Rocky Mountains of North America. Domestic sheep are descended from the Mouflon and one other unidentified ancestor.
In the 11th Century, the Church was opposed to the use of a fork, ascribing the fork as an instrument of the devil.
Satchel Paige was 58 years old when he surrendered his last hit to future Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski in 1965.
Among the world's major cities, none is more dangerous than Caracas, Venezuela, with its murder rate of one per thousand per year.
The first graphical computer game was a 1952 tic-tac-toe game called OXO.
From 2003 to 2007, all five of the players who were selected third in the 2007 NFL Draft have gone on to play in the Pro Bowl. None of the second-chosen players made it. Only one (Carson Palmer) top pick did.
Since 2001, Tennessee has had 67 NFL draft picks; Washington has had only 40.
Before the Patriots chose Tom Brady in the 2000 Draft, they passed him over for six other players: Adrian Klemm, J.R. Redmond, Greg Robinson-Randall, Dave Stachelski, Jeff Marriott and Antwan Harris.
USC, Ohio State, Notre Dame and Miami are the only schools with more than 50 first round NFL draft picks.
Of the 100,000 high school seniors who play football each year, only 215 (0.2%) will ever make an NFL roster.
The average NFL career lasts about 3½ years.
Moscow has at least 33 billionaires. That rates first in the world.
Among the world's major cities, none is more densely populated than Manila.
The Walls of Jerico were about 1,000 feet below sea level.
Working yourself to death is known in Japanese as karoshi, which translates as "death from overwork."
Saint Roch is the patron saint of dogs.
Giant Sequoia cones can remain on the tree for more than two years before opening.
Almost one in five bottles of wine bought in the U.S. is chardonnay. Second most white Zinfandel, with 13% of the market.
Ivory Coast is 16.5% Catholic.
Canadians sometimes buy their milk by the bag.
At one time, astronomers believed that another planet existed between Mercury and the Sun. They called it Vulcan.
When Ponce de León discovered Florida, he thought it to be another Caribbean island.
There are certain sects which proclaim that Hindu civilization is the world's oldest, having been formed started 111.5 trillion years ago.
Castroville, California hosts an annual Artichoke Festival. Its first Artichoke Queen was Marilyn Monroe.
South Carolina's State Constitution, Article 4 Section 2, provides that, if you deny the existence of the Supreme Being, you cannot be the Governor or the Lieutenant Governor.
California, Georgia, South Carolina, Louisiana, Missouri, Minnesota, Colorado, Montana, Alabama, Pennsylvania, North Dakota, Maryland, Indiana, Nebraska and Arkansas all have postal abbreviations that are also found on the periodic table of elements.
All locusts are grasshoppers, but not all grasshoppers are locusts.
The Cal Neva resort and casino, once owned by Frank Sinatra, is built right over the border between California and Nevada.
A house mouse feeds 15 to 20 times per day.
At 341 feet, the Red Pyramid, the largest of the three major pyramids located at the Dahshur necropolis in Sneferu, Egypt, was the tallest man-made structure in the world until the Great Pyramid of Giza was completed around 2570 BC. Before the Red Pyramid, the world's largest structure is unknown.
Pixar chief John Lasseter was once a Jungle Cruise guide at Disneyland.
The Battle of Lexington, which is generally considered the start of the American Revolution, took place more than a year before the Declaration of Independence was signed.
The world's tallest steel tower is the Tokyo Tower, which stands 28 feet higher than the Eiffel Tower.
During the construction of Miller Park in Milwaukee, a crane accident killed three steel workers near home plate.
Crickets in a home are considered good luck in China.
The names for North Carolina and South Carolina were taken from the Latin name Carolus, in honor of King Charles I of England.
September 2003 U. S. Catholic school enrollment was 2,484,252 students.
Rod Stewart was a semi-pro soccer player before he became a successful singer.
"On With The Show" was the first all-color talkie, opening in New York in 1929.
The most heavily traded currency in world foreign exchange markets are the U.S. dollar, the euro, the yen, the pound sterling and the Australian dollar.
Most presidents swear in on a bible opened to a particular passage. Lincoln chose Revelations 16:7 ("Yes, Lord God Almighty, true and just are your judgments.")
A: What is H&R Block?
Q: The answer to the question Ken Jennings missed to end his 74 game winning streak on Jeopardy.
Monaco imposes no income tax.
Rock star Sting once worked as a tax collector.
In at least ten sub-Saharan nations in Africa, the expectation of a baby living to the age of 40 is less than 40%.
The last known surviving U.S. veteran of World War I is Frank Buckles, 107, of Charles Town, West Virginia. He and John Babcock of Spokane, Washington (the last known Canadian veteran of the WWI), both outlived the last known German World War I veteran, Erich Kaestner.
Dom Perignon was a Benedictine monk.
An iPod can contain as much information as the equivalent of 80 pickup trucks full of paper data.
Leonard Kleinrock's host computer at UCLA was the first node of the Internet, which fired up in September 1969.
Offer an Englishman a joint and he's apt to expect a rib of beef.
The most valuable jeans are an original pair of 115 year old Levi Strauss & Co 501 jeans, sold for $60,000 through eBay in 2005.
Whales have no vocal cords, but they can sing.
The world's first barcode was used on a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum.
Aside from George W. Bush, no winning presidential candidate in U.S. election history gathered more votes for president than John Kerry did in November 2004.
Q: In the name of the grandest boulevard in Paris, Champs-Elysees, what does the word Champs mean?
A: "Fields." The name means Elysian Fields.
There were no World Series MVPs until the Dodgers won the World Series in 1955. Johnny Podres was the first to win the award.
The Latin words for apple and evil are the same: malus.
Andrew Jackson was the only U.S. president who oversaw a debt-free nation.
More than half of all households now have more than four different remote controls.
Nobody owns a bigger share of Walt Disney Company than Apple founder Steve Jobs.
Atari means "nearly surrounded," and refers to a situation in the board game "Go."
Brussels sprouts have more vitamin C than oranges.
The full names of Scooby Doo's team are: Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, Norville Rogers (Shaggy), and of course, Scooby "Scoobert" Doo.
If you don't like to call heads or tails, you can use the more proper designations of obverse and reverse.
Barack "Barry" Obama's high school basketball team won the Hawaii state championship in 1979. One of his teammates went on to play on the Chaminade team that beat Ralph Sampson's Virginia team in 1982.
In the history of the NCAA men's basketball tournament, no 16-seed has ever won a game. In the women's tournament, it has happened just once — a 1998 win by Harvard over Stanford.
The last place University of Georgia men's basketball team of 2007-2008 went 4-12 in conference games, but went 4-0 in the postseason conference tournament to win the SEC title.
Since expanding to 16-team brackets, no NCAA men's Final Four has featured four number-one seeds, until this season's Final Four of UCLA, North Carolina, Memphis and Kansas.
New Mexico was a U.S. territory for 61 years before it was granted statehood. No other state spent as many years without the privileges of statehood.
It takes 100 gallons of molasses to produce a single barrel of rum.
In April 1974, a tornado outbreak in the U.S. brought 148 twisters to the ground in 13 states, killing more than 300 people.
Stalin's original name was Josif Dzhugashvili. In 1913, he began using the pseudonym Stalin, meaning "Man of Steel."
Indianapolis was once the home of more automobile manufacturers than any other place on Earth.
Rachel was the name of the prostitute to whom Van Gogh gave his severed ear.
The Vatican has 3,000 employees, but just 900 citizens.
Per capita wine consumption in the U.S. declined from 2.11 gallons per year in 1980 to 1.95 in 2000. In France, the drop went from 24 gallons to 16.
Jenny Boyd, who inspired Donovan's hit single 'Jennifer Juniper' went on to marry and divorce Mick Fleetwood. Her older sister Patti married George Harrison and was the inspiration for Eric Clapton's single'Layla.'
The tallest peak in the lower 48 states is named after geologist Josiah Whitney.
The Giant Sequoia has no known natural lifespan. Most simply grow until they are too big for their roots to support them. When that happens depends on soil and wind conditions.
Humpback whales only breathe on purpose. They have no involuntary breathing method.
The Egyptian Pharoah Piye was a black-skinned ruler from what is now Sudan.
The Big Eight boasted the top three football teams in 1971. Nebraska, Oklahoma and Colorado, in that order.
William Shakespeare's six known signatures are valued at around $3 million dollars each.
By the time you finish reading this sentence, the living human beings on Earth will, for the first time in history, outnumber the population of dead humans.
Approximately forty percent of persons who attempt to commit suicide by holding their breath fail.
Liberace fathered more than 40 illegitimate children.
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