I Bet Ya Didn't Know

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt ate three chocolate-covered garlic balls every morning. Her doctor recommended this to improve her memory.

The "Mercury 13" were women who qualified for astronaut training in the 1960's but were never sent into space. Eileen Collins was the first woman to pilot (1995) and command (1999) a space shuttle.

100 million roses were sold last Valentine's Day--topping boxes of chocolate as the favored token of love.

The Rocky Mountain chain extends more than 3,000 miles through the United States--stretching from New Mexico to Alaska-and Canada.

The General Sherman Tree in Sequoia National Park, California, is the largest tree in the world. It weighs more than 6,000 tons.

Superfans can now get NFL team contact lenses. They cost about $125, and you must get them from an eye doctor. If your team doesn't have its own lenses, wait until next year when the entire league will be represented.

The Rocky Mountains form the Continental Divide. The divide separates rivers that flow west, eventually to the Pacific, from those flowing east to the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic.

Andreas Muller (1630-1694), a German student of Oriental culture, wrote poetry in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew at the age of 16.

Emperor Aurelian (212-275) of Rome, enacted the most dramatic tax cut in history when he wiped out all the tax liabilities of his subjects in 274 by burning all the tax records in a huge bonfire.

When Elizabeth I of Russia died in 1762, 15,000 dresses were found in her closets. She used to change what she was wearing two and even three times an evening.

Florida is not the southernmost state in the United States. Hawaii is farther south.

Four state capitals are named after Presidents. What are they? In order of the states' admission to the Union, they are Jackson, Miss., Jefferson City, Mo., Madison, Wis., and Lincoln, Neb.

Which President fathered a child at age 70? John Tyler, father of 15.

Of the Rocky Mountain's 55 peaks over 14,000 feet, 46 are in Colorado, including 14,110-foot-high Pike's Peak. Utah's high point is King's Peak (13,528 feet).

Bird-watching is reportedly the fastest-growing outdoor activity.

Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) wrote 18 volumes of poetry, was graduated from Bowdoin College at 18, married his second wife 18 years later, was a professor at Harvard for 18 years, and was stricken with his fatal illness on March 18, 1882.

Boris Karloff achieved stardom in his roles in FRANKENSTEIN and THE OLD DARK HOUSE, yet he never spoke a word in either of them.

Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name.

What property do the following words share: apprentice battle citizen court friend kin relation trustee? They all become new words when "ship" is appended.

While 52% of men believe that depression carries a stigma, 35% do not, and 13% don't know. College graduates of both sexes say that the stigma associated with depression has been lifted.

Theodore Roosevelt was the first President to go abroad while in office and later was the first to fly in a plane or own a car.

Most insects used in a film: 22 million bees in The Swarm.

Most extras assembled for a single scene: 300,000, for the two-minute funeral scene in Gandhi.

Q. Supposed to be President Lincoln's guest at Ford's Theatre the night Lincoln was murdered, he declined because his wife Julia couldn't stand Abe's wife. Who was it? A. Ulysses S Grant

Generic drugs shouldn't begin with H, J, K, or W, says the group that guides the naming process. Why? Those letters sound different or don't exist in some languages.

In order to sell his sets of Shakespeare door-to-door, David McConnell offered free perfume to his customers. He realized the perfume was more popular and began selling cosmetics door-to-door. This began the company that grew into Avon.

Ramses II, a pharaoh of Egypt died in 1225 B.C. At the time of his death, he had fathered 111 sons and 67 daughters.

Unlike foods, which can harm you when spoiled, drugs simply lose their potency and effectiveness. (Tetracycline, however, can become toxic.)

What characteristic is shared by the following words: appeases, arraigning, hotshots, intestines, reappear, teammate? In every word each letter appears twice.

Twice as many women report being depressed as men do, but depression in men often goes undiagnosed, untreated, and unreported.

15% of medication errors between 1995 and 2000 were blamed on drug name confusion.

Who am I? I am the only person to have served as President and Vice-President without being elected to either office? Gerald Ford

What do the following words have in common: desert diner later liter super? When their third letters are doubled, they all become new words.

With more than 77 million cats in our homes--compared to some 65 million dogs--felines have nudged canines off their "best friend" pedestal.

Mount Hikurangi in New Zealand, a peak 5,735 feet high, is the first spot on which the sun shines in the entire area that once comprised the British Empire.

An oval tomb found in the Mari Desert, Lebanon, was used 5,000 years ago so the deceased could leave the world in the same position as he entered it.

Mount Rushmore, in the Black Hills of South Dakota, is not the largest sculpture in the world. At only six stories high, Mount Rushmore is surpassed by just the head of the fabulous Crazy Horse Memorial, a work in progress that's also in the Black Hills. When completed, the mountain carving will be about 563 feet tall, almost twice the height of the Statue of Liberty.

ADCOMSUBORDCOMPHIBSPAC is the longest acronym in the 1965 edition of the Acronyms, Initialisms, and Abbreviations Dictionary. It is a Navy term standing for Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command.

Sir George Rooke (1650-1709) was sent to sea as a boy by his father for petty thievery. He went on to fame as the British admiral who captured Gibraltar.

At Verkhoansk in eastern Siberia, the temperature occasionally plunges to 90 degrees below zero. At that temperature, if you went out without a mask or breathing apparatus and inhaled, your lungs would immediately be coasted with frost.