President Franklin Pierce was arrested while in office for running over an old woman with his horse, but his case was dropped due to insufficient evidence in 1853.

The town of Fort Atkinson, Iowa was the site of the only fort ever built by the U.S. government to protect one Indian tribe from another.

Until the 1970s, Jessica was a very unusual name. William Shakespeare, who may even have made up the name, called Shylock's lovely daughter Jessica in The Merchant of Venice, but it was not until recently that large numbers of people began choosing this name for their daughters.

Acorns are poisonous to humans, and, if eaten, will cause kidney damage.

Each year, more than 300,000 American teenagers become afflicted with some form of venereal disease.

The maximum flight speed of a Boeing 747-300 jetliner is 583 miles per hour.

Bell-bottoms became very fashionable in the 1960s, both for men and women. In the mid 1990s they became popular again in women's and men's fashion in Europe spreading to the Americas. They were initially reintroduced as "boot cut" with a slight flare leg. Over time the width of the hem grew wider and the term "flare leg" was favored in marketing...Read more

There are more than 200 different types of Barbie® dolls.

Glamorous sex kitten during the 1950s, starring in movies such as Trapeze and Solomon and Sheba, Gina Lollobridgida retired from films in the 1970s to become a professional photographer.

Nearly half of all psychiatrists have been attacked by one of their patients.

Seers in Mesopotamia were studying people's dreams at least 5,000 years ago.

Frankfurt, Germany, spends more per year on the arts than any other city in Europe.

The paddlefish, a living fossil, has existed virtually unchanged in the Mississippi River for 230 million years, although it now weighs no more than one-third of its ancient weight. The only other part of the world in which the paddlefish is found is China.

The modern dinner plate is a fairly recent development. Until the 15th century, it was customary to eat on a thick slice of stale bread, called a "trencher," that soaked up the juice.

A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as feelers or antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage.

Nolan Bushnell and Atari engineer Al Alcorn placed a prototype of their game in Andy Capp's Tavern, a Sunnyvale, California bar. Alcorn began work a home version of Pong. His project was code named "Darlene" after a female coworker who worked with Alcorn at the time. In the fall of 1974, Alcorn began developing the "Darlene" system. Several ...Read more

The first product to have a UPC bar code on its packaging was Wrigley's gum.

According to acupuncturists, there is a point on the head that you can press to control your appetite. It is located in the hollow just in front of the flap of the ear.

There actually isn't a single type of fish known as the sardine. So technically you can't go fishing for sardines. "Sardine" is a nickname or generic term for any kind of small, saltwater fish that comes packaged in a flat can. There are more than twenty different small fish sold as sardines - everything from small herring to pilchards and ...Read more

Fish travel in schools for protection (a large school of fish may be ignored by predators looking for a lone straggler) and also for feeding (mackerel, for instance, hunt together). All the fish in a school of fish are not related to one another but are often (but not always) the same species. Fish in a school may be of different species, but ...Read more