The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!
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The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
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The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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'Second Street' is the most common street name in the U.S.; 'First Street' is the sixth! "
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On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.
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A Swiss man replaced his car's broken heater with a fully functional wood burning stove.
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The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer.
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A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
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