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* The first airline, DELAG, was established on October 16, 1909, to carry passengers between German cities by Zeppelin airships. Up to November 1913, more than 34,000 people had used the service.
* Titanic was running at 22 knots when she hit the iceberg
* The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. 'UP' indicated the direction of the bubbles
* Francis Scott Key was a young lawyer who wrote the poem, 'The Star Spangled Banner', after being inspired by watching the Americans fight off the British attack of Baltimore during the War of 1812. The poem became the words to the national anthem
* Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated
* Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know your there
* The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep
* Inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver in 1836.
* It has been recommended by dentists that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (two meters) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush!
* In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose
* It is possible to drown and not die. Technically the term 'drowning' refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.
* The first known heart medicine was discovered in an English garden. In 1799, physician John Ferriar noted the effect of dried leaves of the common foxglove plant, digitalis purpurea, on heart action. Still used in heart medications, digitalis slows the pulse and increases the force of heart contractions and the amount of b lood pumped per heartbeat. < Life?. Wonderful A ?Its Capra?s Frank in driver taxi the Ernie and cop Bert after named were Street Sesame on characters>
* Dry cereal for breakfast was invented by John Henry Kellogg at the turn of the century
* During World War II, a German U-boat was sunk by a truck. The U-boat in question attacked a convoy in the Atlantic and then rose to see the effect. The merchant ship it sank had material strapped to its deck including a fleet of trucks, one of which was thrown in the air by the explosion, landing on the U-boat and breaking its back
* Jeremy Bentham, a British philosopher who died in 1832,left his entire estate to the London Hospital provided that his body be allowed to preside over its board meetings. His skeleton was clothed and fitted with a wax mask of his face. It was present at the meeting for 92 years.
* Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.
* Methane gas can often be seen bubbling up from the bottom of ponds. It is produced by the decomposition of dead plants and animals in the mud.
* There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible.
* The E. Coli bacterium propels itself with a 'motor' only one-millionth of an inch in diameter, a thousand times smaller than the tiniest motors built to date by man. The rotation of the bacterial motor comes from a current of protons. The efficiency of the motor approaches 100 per cent.
* Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
* At - 40 degrees Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
* Pet superstores now sell about 40 percent of all pet food
* One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
* In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.
* There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
* If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
* Less than 3% of Nestlé's sales are for chocolate.
* The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change
* More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products
* It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk
* The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph
* Less than one per cent of the 500 Chinese cities have clean air, respiratory disease is China's leading cause of death.
* The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the population growth
* The X's that people sometimes put at the end of letters or notes to mean a kiss, actually started back in the 1000's when Lords would sign their names at the end of documents to other important people. It was originally a cross that they would kiss after signing to signify that they were faithful to God and their King. Over the years though, it slanted into the X
* Nova Scotia is Latin for 'New Scotland.'
* The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol. It's from England.
* The collecting of Beer mats is called Tegestology.
* Even though it is widely attributed to him Shakespeare never actually used the word 'gadzooks'.
* Only 2 blue moons (the saying 'only once in a blue moon ' refers to the occurrence of two full moons during one calendar month) are to occur between now and 2001. Those times are January 1999 and March 1999
* There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet
* "Naked" means to be unprotected. "Nude" means unclothed
* Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when al original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case stored smaller, 'lower case' letters

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