Fascinating Facts and Trivia

During Prohibition, moonshiners would wear "cow shoes."

The fancy footwear left hoofprints instead of footprints, helping distillers and smugglers evade police.

During World War I, a Canadian soldier made a black bear his pet and named her Winnipeg.

“Winnie” was later a resident of the London Zoological Gardens where she was an adored attraction, especially to a boy named Christopher Robin, son of author A.A. Milne.

The boy even named his teddy bear after her.

Before settling on the Seven Dwarfs we know today, Disney considered Chesty, Tubby, Burpy, Deafy, Hickey, Wheezy, and Awful.

Salvador Dali avoided paying restaurant bills by always paying by cheques.

He would draw on the back as the waiter watched, knowing no one would ever cash the art.

Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves.

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA”.

IBM’s motto is “Think”. Apple later made their motto “Think different”.

The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is.

The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service.

The only preserved head of the extinct Dodo

When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it. Only 706 survived.

Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald’s.

During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, “Red Vineyard at Arles”.

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

One in ten people live on an island.

It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

Our tongue is the only muscular organ that is not attached to the skeleton, and works independently.

There's about 1.8 m (6 ft) long DNA inside every cell nucleus in our body, and an average adult body contains around 50 trillion (million million)

Glass balls can bounce higher than rubber ones.


The smallest country in the world takes up .2 square miles, it is the Vatican City.


Hippopotamus milk is pink.