Nearly one out of four new cars is leased rather than bought.
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Rank and title are actually more important than pay in determining how respected employees feel.
If you live in Atlanta, Ga, your city is America's Spring Allergy Capitol this year.
On weekends, Americans eat an extra 82 calories on average each weekend day, compared to weekdays. That adds up to an extra 13,000 calories or three-and-a-half pounds a year.
Q: What do the following numbers have in common: 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12? A: When spoken, they are all one syllable each.
Groucho Marx was the first guest on "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson".
The Japanese national anthem is expressed in only four lines.
The aloe, used as a medicine since ancient times, has been found by modern medicine to be the only remedy for X-ray burns.
The upside-down catfish of South America swim normally for a time when they are young---then turn over on their backs for the remainder of their lives.
According to the folks at Disney - there are 6,469,952 spots painted on dogs in the original 101 Dalmatians.
When the Eiffel Tower was built in 1884, Parisians referred to it as "the tragic lamppost" and nearly universally hated it.
Prince Von Kaunitz (1711-1794), chancellor of Austria, was so fearful of catching cold that in summer, as well as winter, he always wore six suits of clothes.
The flesh of the cuttlefish was long used by the schoolchilden in the French Pyrenees as a pencil eraser.
The Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. has 365 steps, representing every day of the year.
Ukulele means "little jumping flea" in Hawaiian.
The Star of the South, a 125-carat diamond, is the only large diamond ever found by a woman. A Brazilian slave discovered it in 1853 and was given her freedom as a reward.
A military drum was made from the skin of Jan Ziska, Czech leader, at his own request, so that he could continue to participate in his country's war against the Germans, even after his death.
Gabinius, Roman proconsul of Syria, for using Roman troops to restore King Ptolemy of Egypt to his throne, was paid a bribe of $12,000,000.
The Mexican flame leaf, floral emblem of Australia, appears to be a very large flower, but is actually a tiny flower surrrounded by large scarlet leaves.
If you were to rub garlic on the heel of your foot, it would be absorbed by the pores and eventually show up on your breath.
The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
A average coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
One out of every five dollars spent by the U.S. federal government is spent on interest on the federal debt. This has been true since 1984.
Counting only dogs which are registered officially with kennel clubs, the most popular breed of dog in the United States is the Labrador retriever, followed by Rottweilers and German shepherds.
The actor Del Close died in 1999 & left his skull to a theater, so that it might be used as the skull of Yorick in Hamlet.
More than 50% of all the lakes in the world are in Canada.
The Lincoln Monument in Edinburgh's Old Carlton Cemetery (Scotland) was the first statue of an American president to be constructed outside the U.S.
By 1996, The U.S. had 12,094 McDonalds.
Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
The smoke detector was invented in 1969.
In a study, 12% of hospital doctors' and nurses' cell phones were found to carry antibiotic-resistant germs.
Walt Disney provided Mickey Mouse's voice for his early animated pictures, & after 1924 Disney no longer did the drawing for his movies.
The jet streams blow from the west with such a power that eastbound airliners fly across North America about an hour faster than airliners flying westward.
Sinclair Lewis, Frank Kellogg (ex-secretary of State), and Einstein were among the Nobel laureates who marked the 1933 centennial of Alfred Nobel's birth.
"When the first Curious George book was published for British children in 1942, King George VI was ruler of Britain. That posed quite a problem! Could a monkey and a king share the same name? To avoid insulting His Majesty, the decision was made to change Curious George's name to Zozo until after King George's had completed his reign. American children knew the monkey as Curious George, while British schoolchildren called him Zozo. "
The Library of Congress contains 327 miles of bookshelves.
The United States? Northernmost point: Point Barrow, Alaska Easternmost point: West Quoddy Head, Maine Southernmost point: Ka Lae (South Cape), Hawaii Westernmost point: Cape Wrangell, Alaska (Attu Island)
The ruined castle on Peacock Island in Berlin, Germany, was never an actual castle, having been constructed as a ruin in 1797.
A house in Almas do Freire, Portugal, has as its foundation an ancient oven.
Nostradamus was born into a Jewish family that converted to Catholicism.