The "you are here arrow" on a map is called the IDEO locator.

The United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI, began with a modest thirty-four investigators in 1908. Later, it became the powerful force that it is today, currently employing more than 12,000 agents across the United States.

There are about 2 million sweat glands in the average human body. The average adult loses 540 calories with every liter of sweat. Men sweat about 40% more than women.

Under U.S. federal guidelines, there should be 21 to 25 jumbo shrimp in a pound.

Thor's only worthy adversary was a serpent dragon known as Jormungand, or the Midgard Serpent. Jormungand was the son of Loki and Angerboda and was expelled by Odin, forcing it to encircle the earth and hold its tail in its mouth under the depths of the sea. Many ages passed before the "Day of the Last Battle," a war pitting gods against giants,...Read more

Arizona boasts a great variety of fossils, the best known of which were of creatures that lived during the Triassic Period. These include early dinosaurs and the trees that left us Arizona petrified wood, (Araucarioxylon arizonicum), the state's fossil. Arizona petrified wood is protected in Petrified Forest National Park. Another famous Arizona...Read more

Arabian horses have one less vertebra in their backbones than other horses.

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo.

Libra the Scales is the only inanimate symbol in the zodiac.

The nucleus of Halley's comet is a peanut-shaped object, weighing about 100,000 million tons, and measuring about 9 miles by 5 miles.

The first female athlete to appear in a Wheaties "Breakfast of Champions" television commercial was Mary Lou Retton, shortly after her gold medal win at the 1984 summer Olympics.

Venezuela's Angel Falls are a mile high. They were originally discovered from an airplane.

Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 - May 8, 1988) was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of "hard" science fiction. He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility that few have equaled, and also helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was the first writer to break into ...Read more

Crushed cockroaches can be applied to a stinging wound to help relieve the pain.

The costume of Sesame Street's Big Bird is made of turkey feathers -- dyed yellow, of course.

The British Invasion was the term applied by the news media to the influx of rock and roll, beat and pop performers from the United Kingdom who became popular in the United States from 1964 to 1967. British artists who went to number one during this period were The Beatles, The Animals, The Dave Clark Five, Donovan, Herman's Hermits, The Kinks, ...Read more

Because the natural habitat of flamingoes is of little use to man -- the alkaline African lake waters support few fish and cannot be used for human consumption or irrigation -- and also because their resting areas are typically inaccessible, the birds are rarely disturbed, unlike other African

Olympic (or Amateur) boxing is found at the Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games. Olympic boxing prizes point scoring rather than physical damage or knockouts. Bouts comprise four rounds of two minutes in Olympic and Commonwealth, and three rounds of two minutes in a national ABA (Amateur Boxing association) bout, each with a one-minute interval...Read more

One peculiar behavior of dachshunds is that they often roll around in odiferous things when they encounter them. This odd habit has been attributed to the dog's hunting instinct. Doing this is the dachshund's attempt to "lose its scent" so that its potential prey cannot smell it.

The famous Russian composer Aleksandr Borodin was also a respected chemistry professor in St. Petersburg.