Yellowstone is the world's 1st national park. It was dedicated in 1872.

The percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%

Men have more blood than women Men have 15 gallons versus 875 gallons for women

In 1968, a convention of beggars in Dacca, India, passed a resolution demanding that 'the minimum amount of alms be fixed at 15 paisa (three cents)' The convention also demanded that the interval between when a person hears a knock at his front door and when he offers alms should not exceed 45 seconds

The characters of Homer, Marge, Lisa, and Maggie were given the same first names as Simpsons creator Matt Groening's real-life father, mother, and two sisters.

Queen bees only sting other queen bees

The expression 'dog days' goes back to the Romans, who believed that in the hottest part of the summer, Sirius (the 'dog star' and the brightest star in the constellation) lent its own heat to the heat of the sun The Roman 'dog days' lasted from July 3 to August 11

The Beatles were depicted in wax at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in London, in 1964, the first pop album stars to be honored.

The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.

The Academy Award statue is named after a librarian's uncle One day Margaret Herrick, librarian for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, remarked that the statue looked like her Uncle Oscar--the name stuck