As of 1976 there were approximately 375 ten-thousand-dollar bills in circulation in the United States.
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In the original German, a literal translation of DELICATESSEN would be "place to get dainty materials."
The core of the moon composes 2% of the moon's total mass where as the Earth's core has about 30% of the Earth's mass.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), one of the greatest minds of all time, while attending elementary school in Munich, Germany, maintained only average grades.
Susanna Salter was elected mayor of Argonia, Kansas in 1887, making her the first woman mayor in the United States.
This year's 1040 tax form instruction book has 126 pages. In had just 52 in 1986.
Big fat copycat? From 1977 to 1996, fast food hamburgers grew 1.1 oz. Homemade burgers grew 2.7 oz
There are more stars in space than there are specks of sand on the Earth.
Nintendo's mascot, Mario, was named after the landlord of one of their warehouses in America.
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, two out of five women in America dye their hair.
Twenty nine percent of married couples agree on most political issues.
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), the famed composer, took nearly 20 years to complete his first symphony, but finished the second, third, and fourth symphonies in quick succession.
St. Thomas a' Becket (1118-1170), archbishop of Canterbury, was appointed archbishop on a Tuesday, put on trial on a Tuesday, banished from England on a Tuesday, returned from exile on a Tuesday, slain on a Tuesday, and canonized on a Tuesday.
The average American throws out 1,500 pounds of garbage every year.
Forensic science is the fastest-growing major at West Virginia University, Baylor, and other colleges nationwide.
"Hyperemia" is too much blood in any part of the body.
An average golf ball has 360 dimples.
Amresh Kumar Jha (India) balanced on one foot for 71 hours 40 minutes.
Ashrita Furman (New York) balanced 62 pint glasses on his chin for 10 seconds.
Why is the letter "X" used to represent the unknown? The Arabic word used to represent an unknown quantity was "shei." This was translated in to Greek to "Xei" and later shortened to just "X."
About 8% of students at the Dunkin Donuts Training Center fail the six-week course.
43% of all weddings are second marriages, for at least one person involved.
Teddy Roosevelt had 24 pets in the White House, including 4 guinea pigs, 2 cats and 1 bear.
The frog is the part of a horse's hoof that is the center of blood circulation.
Last year we spent $2.3 billion on movie-theater comedies, film-goers' favorite genre.
Bronx-born Ralph Lifshitz created the Polo brand in 1967 with a line of ties. He's better known as Ralph Lauren.
The rock group Queen issued albums called "A Night at the Opera" and "A Day at the Races" which were named after Marx Brothers Movies.
The U.S. ranks #1 in health care spending, as percentage of gross national product, compared with other countries.
Bibless overalls created by a German immigrant in the 19th century led to the revolutionary fashion of blue jeans. The immigrant entrepreneur was Levi Strauss.
What do the following words have in common? "cookie, cosmos, cuckoo, message, museum, quack, sausage, sequoia, squeaky, wages" They are all comprised of only the odd-numbered letters of the alphabet: a, c, e, g, and so on.
The ball on top of a flagpole is called a "truck."
The El Rey Theater in Manteca, California, burst into flames shortly after a showing of THE TOWERING INFERNO. The fire, of undetermined origin, leveled the theater.
The monumental movie made in 1939, GONE WITH THE WIND, resulted in 449,512 feet of film, of which only about 20,300 feet appear in the final picture.
In the early 1990's, 4.4% of kids had elevated levels of lead in their blood. Just 2.2% did in 2000.
The shortest British monarch was Charles I, who was 4'9".
The total population of the Earth at the time of Julius Caesar was 150 million. The total population increase in two years on Earth today is 150 million.
James B. Connolly, an American runner, became the first Olympics winner in modern times---competing in an event for which he had not even trained. No American had entered the hop, step, and jump contest, which was the first event when the Olympics were revived in Athens in 1896. Connolly volunteered to compete and won with a mark of 45 feet.
A "cremnophobe" is someone who is afraid of falling down the stairs.
Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States.
In a spider's web, the circling threads are sticky, the spoke threads are dry. The spider always walks on the spokes, so it doesn't get hung up in the web.