Daffy Duck's middle name is 'Dumas.'

On the average, there are 8 peas in a pod.

There are almost 2 billion Christians in the world, about a billion Muslims, 800 million Hindus, 300 million Buddhists, and 14 million Jews.

Every month, 4 quadrillion (4,000,000,000,000,000) transistors are produced, about half-a-million for each person on earth.

The Virginia Opossum is the only marsupial (pouched mammal) in North
America. They will play dead when threatened but they do not sleep hanging by their tail. They have a litter size up to 22 but only a maximum of 13 live. Their babies stay in the pouch for the first 60 days.

The mudskipper is a fish that can actually walk on land.

The historic Ford 1,100-acre facility near the Rouge River was once the world's largest auto plant. Henry Ford built the plant in 1918 because he dreamed of building a car from start to finish in one location.

The first subway was built in London (1860-63) by the cut and cover method. Other notable subways: Paris (the Metro 1898), New York (1900)

Which ancient city was buried by a volcanic eruption? Pompeii

The sari has been used continuously and relatively unchanged for thousands of years.

The world's oldest and longest-reigning monarch is King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand.   

Harry Schielack Of Rockdale, Texas holds the record for the most chicken eaten by one person in a life time (estimated 1 Million Chickens In Only 40 Years).

The duckbill platypus (male) is the only venomous mammal in the world.

The last ever cavalry charge in the world took place at the battle of Omdurman. The young Winston Churchill took part in it.

By law, in Bourbon, Miss., one small onion must be served with each glass of water in a restaurant.

The Tower of Independence clock on the back of a U.S. $100 dollar bill
shows the time as 4:10.

The Union ironclad, Monitor, was the first U.S. ship to have a flush toilet.

The U.S. city with the highest rate of lightning strikes per capita is Clearwater, Florida.

It would take 13 years and eight months to stay one night in every room at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.

Kitsap County, Washington, was originally called Slaughter County, and the first hotel there was called the Slaughter House.

Men are 1.6 times more likely to undergo by-pass surgery than women.

There are 10 million bricks in the Empire State building.  Bob Dole is 10 years older than the Empire State Building.

The University of Calgary offers a two-day course in igloo building.

Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.

The zoo in Tokyo closes for two months of the year so animals can have a
holiday from visitors.

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.

The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.

A garter snake can give birth to 85 babies.

If you unfolded and laid out the delicate membranes from inside a dogs nose, the membranes would be larger than the dog itself.

Kangaroos can hop as fast as 40 miles per hour.