7'1 basketball star Wilt Chamberlain's parents were 5'8.
The highest lifetime yield of milk for a single cow is 465,224 lbs.
Bob Dole is 10 years older than the Empire State Building.
Each year, Americans spend more on cat food than on baby food.
Frank Epperson invented the Popsicle in 1905 when he was 11 years old.
A sharkis the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
(Some days that's ab out what my memory span is.)
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
At age 47, the Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationshipwith 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years later,they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill's 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy's mother, age 46. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father's father-in-law and his own grandpa.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in
the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers--they saw it as competition. It is
not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq. ft. house 4 inches deep
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedo-ing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.