| Government by a woman or women is called a "gynarchy" |
| Birth-control campaigns in Egypt in the late 1970s failed because village women ended up wearing the pills in lockets, as talismans |
| Two-thirds of the people in the world have not made a phone call |
| Tokyo has had 24 recorded instances of people either killed or receiving serious skull fractures while bowing to each other with the traditional Japanese greeting |
| A pig started a cold war. In 1859, an American-owned pig wandered into a British-owned potato patch on San Juan Island, off the coast of Washington. The pig was shot, starting a cold war |
| Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself." |
| Walt Disney was afraid of mice |
| Alexander Graham Bell never phoned his wife or mother because they were deaf |
| American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class |
| The Chinese ideogram for "trouble" depicts two women living under one roof |