Basketball was invented in 1891 by James Naismith. He set out to invent a game to occupy students between the football and baseball seasons.
Large doses of coffee can be lethal. Ten grams, or 100 cups over 4 hours, can kill the average human.
Tequila is made from the root of the blue agave cactus.
A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.
During a severe windstorm or rainstorm the Empire State Building may sway several feet to either side.
There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey.
The white part of an egg is the albumen.
In playing poker, there is one chance in 500 of drawing a flush.
Potato chips were invented in Saratoga Springs in 1853 by chef George Crum. They were a mocking response to a patron who complained that his French fries were too thick.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
England's Stonehenge is 1500 years older than Rome's Colosseum.
An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
Watermelon, considered one of America's favorite fruits, is really a vegetable (Citrullus lanatus). Cousin to the cucumber and kin to the gourd, watermelons can range in size from 7 to 100 pounds.
Astronaut John Glenn ate the first meal in space when he ate pureed applesauce squeezed from a tube aboard Friendship 7 in 1962.
Most men have erections every hour to hour and a half during sleep.
A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds.
If any of the heads on Mt. Rushmore had a body, it would be nearly 500 feet tall.
The first Soccer World Cup was held in Uruguay in 1930 and attracted 13 competing countries.
There are 132 rooms in the US White House.
Vanilla is the extract of fermented and dried pods of several species of orchids.
The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus.
Almonds and pistachios are the only nuts mentioned in the Bible.
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
American chocolate manufacturers use about 1.5 billion pounds of milk -- only surpassed by the cheese and ice cream industries.
Hawaii is the only US state that grows cacao beans to produce chocolate.
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
On July 28th, 1945, a US Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York's Empire State Building, killing 14 people.
A single little brown bat can catch 1,200 mosquitoes-sized insects in just one hour.
Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
In 1976, the first eight Jelly Belly® flavors were launched: Orange, Green Apple, Root Beer, Very Cherry, Lemon, Cream Soda, Grape, and Licorice.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York City hung Matisse's ‘Le Bateau’ upside-down for 47 days before an art student noticed the error.
The Eiffel Tower receives a fresh coat of 300 tons of reddish-green paint every seven years.
Chocolate contains phenylethylamine (PEA), a natural substance that is reputed to stimulate the same reaction in the body as falling in love.
When Swiss cheese ferments, a bacterial action generates gas. As the gas is liberated, it bubbles through the cheese leaving holes. Cheese-makers call them “eyes.”
A single share of Coca-Cola stock, purchased in 1919, when the company went public, would have been worth $92,500 in 1997.
In M&M candies, the letters stand for Mars and Murrie, the developers of the candy in 1941.
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