Did You Know To be born on Sunday was considered a sign of great sin during the Puritan times. The citrus soda "7 UP" was created in 1929. The original name of the popular drink was "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda", but it got changed to "7 UP." The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day. Prosopagnosia refers to the inability to identify people by their faces. In severe cased prosopagnosia a person may not be able to identify themselves in a .mirror. On November 29, 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter." An adult sheep can eat between 1 to 4 kg of food per day. In the United States, lightning hits the ground 40 million times a year. A mother hen turns her egg approximately 50 times in a day. This is so the yolk does not stick to the shell. The favourite honeymoon place is Hawaii. The 1960 Summer Olympics were the first Olympics to be aired on television by CBS. The Canadian holiday Boxing Day got its name from the custom of giving. Servants were given boxes which had money hidden inside them from their employers. The servants would have to break the box into pieces to get the money. The Leaning Tower of Pisa is 58.36 metres above the ground. The name "Snickers" for the popular candy bar was named after a horse that the Mars family owned. The #1 peanut producing state is Georgia. Keeping Warm With an Axe, is the title of a real how-to book. An artificial Christmas tree last up to six years in a home. Women are four times more likely to have foot problems than men. In 1783, the hot air balloon was invented in France. In 1983, a Japanese artist, Tadahiko Ogawa, made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of ordinary toast. Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7 Cotton crops can be sprayed up to 40 times a year making it the most chemical- intensive crop in the world. The "Star Spangled Banner" did not become a national anthem until 1931. It was designated by an Act of Congress. Every year in the U.S., there are 178,000 new cases of lung cancer. A housefly can only ingest liquid material. They regurgitate their food to liquefy the food that they are going to eat. Bugs Bunny was originally called "Happy Rabbit." In 1685, New France used playing cards as currency because of the shortage of coins. Sharks have upper and lower eyelids, but they do not blink. In the movie "Gandhi" 300,000 extras appeared in the funeral scene. Of the 300,000, approximately 100,000 received a small fee, and the other 200,000 did it for free. Next Previous