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

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.

In the 1990's, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center was the unofficial "hospital to the stars." All 850 rooms at the center were private, and the 16 deluxe rooms on the hospital's 8th floor cost $1,324 per night in 1994. The deluxe rooms were not ornate, and resembled nice-but-average hotel rooms. Part of the high price ticket was the special menu for ...Read more

The fighting conditions World War I prompted the British Army to begin research into a self-propelled vehicle which could cross trenches, crush barbed wire, and would be impervious to fire from machine-guns. Having already seen a Rolls-Royce Armoured Car, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill decided to oversee further development. The ...Read more

There is no one who does not dream. Those who claim to have no dreams, laboratory tests have determined, simply forget their dreams more easily than others.

In 1970, "MCI" stood for "Microwave Communications, Inc." No longer used as an acronym, it now stands alone.