-In 1797 James Hetherington inventented the top hat and wore it in public. He was arrested for disturbing the peace.

-During the 1980's the average speed of traffic in New York was less than 10 mph. -There about 171 billion U.S. pennies in circulation.

-Marriage makes a woman more likely to become depressed and a man less likely.

-IBM holds the most U.S. patients.

-Thomas Henry Huxley invented the word agnostic in 1869 because he was tired of being called an athiest.

-John Wayne had the most leading roles in Hollywood with 141.

-The largest snowflakes were 15 inches in diameter and 8 inches thick.

-The word hitchhike was coined in 1926.

-The first e-mail was sent over the internet in 1972.

-Sunsets can be green in Antarctica.

-The two most dangerous jobs in the U.S. are commercial fishing and logging.

-Virus means poison in Latin.

-Playing cards are round in India. -The Statue of Liberty is patented.

-The most mentioned woman in the bible is Sarah at 56 times.

-The Mayan Empire lasted six times as long as the Roman Empire.

-Jerry Maguire was the highest grossing sports movie in history.

-At least 8,000 human made objects are orbiting the Earth.

-127 people ran the first New York City Marathon in 1970, 32,000 ran in 1998.

-The Cincinnati Redstockings was the first baseball team to pay its players.

-Rowing is the oldest American college sport still in existence.

-The most expensive movie poster in history was the poster from 1932's The Mummy which auctioned for $453,000 in 1977.

-The Tour de France bicycle race is 2,300 miles long.

-When badminton was invented in India, it was known as poona.

-Shakespeare's Hamlet has been adopted into film 49 times, Romeo and Juliet has been adopted into film 27 times.

-The referee tossed a jump ball after every basket in basketball until 1937.

-Mugging someone on the subay in Britain can get you life in prison.

-An Italian deck of cards has no queens.

-The common name for the animal anobium pertinax is Bookworm.

-There are 1000 different chemicals in a cup of coffee.

-Aztecs offered Tamales to the gods.... as well as humans.

-A redwood's roots are only about 5 or 6 feet deep and spread out over about an acre.

-Henry VIII was the eight English king to be called Henry and the first to be called "Your Majesty."

-20,900 gallons of water flow from the Amazon river into the sea each minute.

-The U.S. treasury mints about 37 million pennies a day.

-Sound travels a mile in five seconds in the air and a mile in one second under water.

-The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows, shaved eyebrows were a fad when she was painted.

-Every thousand years spring gets two thirds of a day shorter.

-Angel Falls in Venezuela is 15 times higher than Niagra Falls.

-Horse jockeys are the only U.S. athelets leagally allowed to bet on themselves.

-The first baseball player to be named rookie of the year was Jackie Robinson in 1947.

-If you get the recomended 8 hours of sleep each night you will sleep over 2,900 hours each year.

-London police photographed the eyes of Jack the Ripper's victims because they thought his image might be recorded in them.

-The 1909 Lincoln penny was the first U.S. coin to have a president on it.

-Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.

-The combined population of North American colonies in 1610 was 350.

-When you use the breaks on your car, they generate enought heat to warm your house.

-In 1952 Einstein called income taxes the "most difficult thing to understand."

-Mickey Mantle is credited with the longest home run ever, 643 feet.

-The face value of a Titanic boarding pass auctioned in 1999 was $8, it sold for $100,000.

-Iron Age magazine once called Theodore Roosevelt a "drunk," he sued them and won 6 cents.

-None of the passengers on the Mayflower had middle names.

-The oldest tree on earth is a 4,500 year old bristlecone pine named Methuselah.

-The largest cast ever assembled for a film scene was 300,000 for the funeral scene in Gandhi.

-The battle of Waterloo was fought in Pancenoit, 4 miles away.

-Bagpipes were invented in Iran and brought to Scotland by the Romans.

-The cost of mailing a letter by the pony express was $5 for half an ounce.

-By the time he died in 1910, the king of Siam had fathered 370 children.

-There are more than 1,000 people named Jim Smith in the Society of Jim Smiths.

-Every lake in Ohio is manmade.

-Poison Oak and Poison Ivy are members of the cashew family.

-The fine for leaving a public toilet unflushed in Singapore is $150.

-Murders have claimed more American lives during the 20th century than wars have.