•       To deter would-be thieves and pirates, Mission: Impossible 2 film cans were labeled "Doll House" when originally shipped to theaters.

•       In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight & sleep tight."

•       COFFEE has 125-185mg of caffeine per cup. It enters the human system faster then the caffeine in Tea and causes 'coffee jitters'. No disease-preventing or health-enhancing ingredients.

•       TEA contains 55mg of caffeine per cup. This caffeine takes longer to enter the system so its gentler. Tea has tannin, catechin, Vitamins E and C and fluorine that prevents cancer and heart diseases.

•       The Cekkomat was invented by the German engineer Gerald Winkler. The Cekkomat is a device that uses suction and friction to help a person slither up a vertical surface of any texture!

•       A 'Dead' Rattlesnake can reflexively bite for up to an hour or more after being 'Killed'!

•       In 1997, Astronaut David Wolf of Houston, Texas, was permitted to caste his vote for Houston's Mayor while on board the Russian Space Station MIR!

•       During World War II, the U.S. navy hired Reuben Fine, a world champion chess player, to calculate the probability of where enemy submarines might surface!

•       It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based; this period was called the honey month or what was known today as the honeymoon.

•       The original story from "Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights" begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."

•       The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is "Live Free or Die." These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.

•       Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.

•       What was the original name for the butterfly? The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!

•       Queen Elizabeth II of England has a rubber Duck in her private bath with an inflatable crown!