The World's Largest Catsup Bottle stands proudly next to Route 159, just south of downtown Collinsville, Illinois. This unique, 170-foot-tall water tower was built in 1949 by W.E. Caldwell Company for the G.S. Suppiger catsup bottling plant. In 1995, due largely to the efforts of the Catsup Bottle Preservation Group, this piece of local history ...Read more

According to one source, the Los Angeles Dodgers coined the term "high five." Outfielder Glenn Burke is credited with originating it in 1977.

There are more people in New York City (7,895,563) than there are in the states of Alaska, Vermont, Wyoming, South Dakota, New Hampshire, Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Hawaii, Delaware, and New Mexico combined.

The telephone area code for a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean is 871.

A recent study conducted by the Shyness Clinic in Menlo Park, California, revealed that almost 90 percent of Americans label themselves as shy.

This is one of the historical dental trivia questions that people have been asking for many years. It is believed that the defenders of the Alamo were probably among the first to try chewing gum. The Mexican dictator Santa Anna is credited with introducing it. Here's another question about gum. Sugarless chewing gum is actually good for your ...Read more

Laverne De Fazio's favorite drink in the TV series Laverne and Shirley was Pepsi and milk.

The tarantula spends most of its life within its burrow, which is an 18-inch vertical hole with an inch-wide opening. When male tarantulas are between the ages of 5 to 7 years, they leave the burrow in search of a female, usually in the early fall. This migration actually signals the end of their life cycle. The males mate with as many females ...Read more

An adult human head weighs about 12 pounds (5.4kg), or the same as a light bowling ball.

Camp Snoopy is the largest indoor themed entertainment park in America. Located inside The Mall of The Americas in Bloomington, Minnesota, Camp Snoopy sits under 1.2 miles of skylights which allow 70 percent of the natural light to enter the Park. Camp Snoopy is home to over 400 trees and 30,000 live plants. Over 20,000 lady bugs have been ...Read more

A "duffer" is Australian slang for a cattle thief.

While the world was busy welcoming the arrival of the twentieth century on December 31, 1900, a forceful gale on England's Salisbury Plain blew over one of the ancient monumental stones at Stonehenge.

Thirty gallons, or 135 litres, of water is used for the average shower in the United States.

The average American uses eight times as much fuel energy as an average person anywhere else in the world.

In 1988 interview, Arnold Schwarzenegger recalled his childhood experiences in Europe when going to the movies: "Whatever is forbidden as a kid you want even more. We had stricter controls in Austria, because we had a police officer standing at the entrance to the movie theater checking our identification. If you were not the right age, you ...Read more

Coined in the early 1980s, the slang term "rock jock" is a mountaineering enthusiast.

The dense globules of gas from which stars are born are much larger than the stars they will form. In the Orion nebula, globules have been detected which are 500 times larger than the solar system.

John VIII (died 882) was the first Pope to be murdered -- he was poisoned and then clubbed to death.

Thirteen popes were named Leo, including Leo the Great, who prevented the Huns from sacking Rome. Six emperors of Constantinople were also called Leo. The continuing popularity of the name probably stems for it association with the lion, long considered the king of beasts.

By 1982 G.I. Joe was back on store shelves, albeit in a downsized version produced at the size of the wildly popular Star Wars action figures. The "Adventure Team" idea was modified and combined with the original military theme of the early action figures. This was the beginning of the 1980s G.I. Joe frenzy that led to the production of posters,...Read more