Now you know...

The infinity sign is properly known as a “lemniscate.”

What a load of crap

The single, largest, cohesive structure made by man is/was the Fresh Kills landfill.

A New way to be patriotic

The phrase “going commando” originated during the Vietnam War, a time when American troops spent extended periods of time in hot, humid jungles. Tight-fitting undergarments reduced ventilation and increased the risk of fungal infections in the groin area.

Yea, that's America for you...

More people watched Elvis’ “Aloha from Hawaii” than the landing on the Moon.

Renaissance man or raving lunatic?

Before returning to the silver screen in Gangs of New York, Oscar winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis was working as a cobbler in Florence, Italy.

Killer cravings

Each year, more people are killed by vending machines than by wolf-attacks.

Not counting any deaths caused by what's in the vending machines...

Just one more reason why wolves are amazing.

But they didn't have spraypaint...

Some of the first examples s of graffiti come from 1st century Pompeii, where messages like “I don’t want to sell my husband” and “Successus was here,” were written on walls.

Not king in Australia

In Australia, Burger King is actually called Hungry Jack's (BK already existed there).

Close, but no cigar!

Creedence Clearwater Revival had seven songs hit #2 on the pop singles chart, but never scored a number one hit.

Odd combination...

Charles Richter, the American scientist who developed the Richter scale, was an avid nudist.

Good Grief!

In the Peanuts comic strip, Peppermint Patty’s real name is Patricia Reichardt

Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt is a fictional character featured in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. A freckle-faced brunette, she is one of a small group in the strip who lives across town from Charlie Brown and his school friends. Generally displaying the characteristics of a tomboy, she was the first female Peanuts character to wear pants. She made her first appearance on August 22, 1966. The following year, she made her animated debut in the TV special You're in Love, Charlie Brown and began (in the comics) coaching a baseball team that played against Charlie Brown and since has had other adventures with him. She calls Charlie Brown "Chuck" and Lucy "Lucille" and is the only character to do so (although Peppermint Patty's close friend Marcie has been known to call Charlie Brown "Chuck" on occasion, she usually calls him "Charles").

Peppermint Patty's birthday is on October 4, as determined from the October 4, 1970 strip in which Patty's father gives her roses on her birthday. Peppermint Patty has also been called "Priscilla", by Marcie in the TV special A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, possibly a reference to Priscilla Mullins, one of the pilgrims.

What about pig-latin?

The third most-used language in the United States is American Sign Language.

Blue whale's got nothin on this

The largest living organism ever found has been discovered in an ancient American forest, in eastern Oregon.

Officially known as Armillaria ostoyae, or the honey mushroom, the fungus is 3.5 miles square miles and takes up 1,665 football fields.

Some real fast feet

Ethiopia’s Abebe Bikila won a gold medal at the 1960 Olympics — while running the marathon barefoot! He won again four years later, this time wearing shoes.

Sorry. I was exhausted... (Saturday)

There was no fact for yesterday. This is today's fact.

Disney #2 (Thursday)

Cinderella's castle is made of fiberglass, not stone.

Disney #1 (Wednesday)

The Tower of Terror was built just short enough that it doesn't need a blinking light on top to warn airplanes (the designers thought it would ruin the theme of the ride).

Two thumbs up! No, down! I meant down!!

How did Roman emperors order the death of a gladiator?

Thumbs up.

Neither Roman spectators calling for the death of a gladiator, nor Roman emperors authorizing one ever gave a thumbs down. In fact, the Romans didn't use a thumbs down sign at all.

If death was desired, the thumb was stuck up-like a drawn sword. For a loser's life to be spared, the thumb was tucked away inside the closed fist-as with a sheathed weapon. This is expressed in Latin as "pollice compresso favor iudicabatur" (goodwill is decided by the thumb being kept in).

So yes, the movie The Gladiator is incorrect when it shows Commodus giving the thumbs up to spare Maximus. Ridley Scott was aware of the misconception, but did not want to confuse the audience.

Another reason Jersey is pathetic...

In New Jersey and Oregon, pumping your own gas is actually illegal.

What an idiot...

Albert Einstein never learned how to drive a car.

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass–energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc2. Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect."

Einstein published over 300 scientific works and over 150 non-scientific works. In 1999 Time magazine named him the "Person of the Century", and according to Einstein biographer Don Howard, "to the scientifically literate and the public at large, Einstein is synonymous with genius."

BUT...he couldn't drive a car!