Benjamin Franklin had seven sisters and nine brothers. He was the fifteenth child and youngest son.

Only about 1.6 percent of the water on Earth is fresh. Most of it is locked -- unusable for living things -- in snow and the ice at the poles and on the peaks of the highest mountains.

The maximum height allowed for a fence in equestrian horse-jumping competitions is 5 feet, 6 inches.

The Popsicle was invented by 11-year-old Frank Epperson in 1905. He left a container of soda and a stirrer outside overnight, and in the morning discovered them frozen together.

Mitzi was the name of the dolphin that played Flipper in the movie. For the TV series, she was replaced by Suzy and Cathy.

Teenagers often have episodes of anger and negativity in which they slam doors and scream tirades. According to experts, most puberty-driven "snit fits" last an average of 15 minutes.

Australia is the smallest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent in the world. It is the only country which is also a whole continent - 18.6 million people live here.

The bark of the redwood tree is fireproof. Fires in redwood forests take place inside the trees.

In 1978, a poll showed that one French television program broadcast on August 14 was watched by no viewers at all. The show was an in-depth interview with an Armenian woman on her fortieth birthday. It covered how she met her husband, her illnesses, and her joy of living. According to the TV survey, 67 percent of viewers had watched a Napoleonic...Read more

According to the Recruitment Code of the U.S. Navy, anyone "bearing an obscene and indecent" tattoo will be rejected.

Television's Mr. Ed was played by a horse named Bamboo Harvester. The voice was supplied by Allan Lane.

The average American uses eight times as much fuel energy as an average person anywhere else in the world.

Cat's cradle is one of the most universal games in the world. Played in almost every culture, what is a puzzle to ethnologists is that widely scattered peoples -- Maoris of New Zealand, North American Indians, Arctic Eskimos, and Africans, for instance -- make figures of string between their

He certainly did -- Wolf was the name of the dog that was with Rip Van Winkle when he fell asleep for 20 years.

The average bra size sold at Frederick's of Hollywood in 1966 was a 34B. Today, it's a 36C.

The war with Spain was the shortest war in American history. It lasted five months: April 1898 to August 1898. ----------- headline:How many women were in the Girl Scouts?

Over 40 percent of the women in the U.S. were in the Girl Scouts organization. Two-thirds of the women listed in "Who's Who

Alchemy refers to both an early protoscience and an early philosophical discipline, both combining elements of chemistry, metallurgy, physics, medicine, astrology, semiotics, mysticism, spiritualism, and art. Alchemy has been practiced in Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Persia, India, and China, in Classical Greece and Rome, in the Islamic ...Read more

The King James version of the Bible has 50 authors, 66 books, 1,189 chapters, and 31,173 verses. The shortest verse in the Bible consists of two words: "Jesus wept" (John 11:35).

In the United States, Birkenstocks were first popular among young adults, a group traditionally associated with American liberalism; in the early 1990s "Birks" enjoyed a surge of popularity among college-aged Generation Xers. During the 2004 U.S. presidential primary, some conservatives derided Howard Dean's supporters as "Birkenstock liberals."...Read more