Did You Know Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? It's Paul Reiser himself.. And Greg Evigan sang the "My Two Dads" theme. Alan Thicke, the father in the TV show Growing Pains wrote the theme songs for The Facts of Life and Different Strokes . In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run. The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks. Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The Skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radios newscast about the wreck. The Professor's real name was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's last name was Summers and Mrs. Howell's maiden name was Wentworth. The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words. A snail can sleep for 3 years. Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world. The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start. Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump." According to tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems in Washington, D.C., dogs and cats, like people, are either right-handed or left- handed --- that is, they favour either their right or left paws. A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can. Blue whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as 3 Greyhound buses. Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile; so if you ever find yourself chased by one, run in a zigzag line. You'll lose him or her every time. Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places. Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale. Butterflies taste with their hind feet. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery. The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin. The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile". Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order. A Rhinoceros’s horn is made of hair. Next Previous