| Kotex was first manufactured bandages, during WWI. |
| In 1987, a 1,400-year-old lump of still-edible cheese was unearthed in Ireland. |
| Most cows give more milk when they listen to music. |
| China sells capsules made out of aborted human fetuses. Each of the bags contains a single aborted foetus. The infants' remains is cut up into small pieces, dried, microwaved and then ground down into a coarse powder, to be made into tablets of an "alternative medicine" that plays on centuries-old superstitions and folklore. |
| A person can die from drinking too much water. |
| The island of Manhattan (NYC) was purchased from the Algonquin Indians in 1624 for a whopping $24. |
| Doughnuts didn't have a hole in their center until a sea captain from Maine began poking holes in his mother's doughnuts in 1847. |
| 'Bookkeeper' is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters. |
| Saul Bellow kept his fiction separate from his essays and criticisms by using a two-typewriter system. Costly at first maybe, but it definitely kept him organised! |
| 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled. |