Isaac Newton dropped out of school when he was a teenager, at his mother's request. She hoped he would become a successful farmer.

American Indians were cultivating strawberries in 1643. They crushed the strawberries into a mortar, mixing them with meal to make a strawberry bread.

Before 1933, the dime was legal as payment only in transactions of $10 or less. In that year, Congress made the dime legal tender for all transactions.

A rather protoplasmic Bugs Bunny first appeared in the cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt, released on April 30, 1938. Following the general plot of a 1937 cartoon, Porky's Duck Hunt, the short cast Porky Pig as...Read More

The country with the most post offices is India with over 152,792, compared with just over 38,000 in the United States.

More than 20 percent of men and 10 percent of women say they've forgotten their wedding anniversary at least once.