Felix the Cat's girlfriend was named Phyllis.
Fire walking is a religious ceremony practiced in many parts of the world, including the Indian subcontinent, Malaya, Japan, China, Fiji Islands, Tahiti, Society Islands, New Zealand, Mauritius, Bulgaria, and Spain. It was also practiced in classical Greece and in ancient India and China. The most common practice is of walking swiftly over a layer of embers spread thinly along the bottom of a shallow trench. Sometimes the devotees or priests walk through a blazing log fire. Instead of embers from a wood fire, in Fiji and Mauritius there may be red-hot stones, or embers may be poured over the devotee's head in a "fire bath."
Floor cleaning products in Venezuela have ten times the pine fragrance of U.S. floor cleaners. Venezuelan women won't buy a weaker fragrance. These fastidious homemakers may wet-mop their tile floors twice a day, leaving windows and doors open so the scent can waft out to the street to send the message that their houses are clean.
Florence, Italy was the first city to mint its own gold coins in 1252. The fiorino became known as the florence, then the florin.
According to one helpful-hint expert, you can use a drop of vinegar or vodka on each lens to clean eyeglasses without streaks.
According to poetic legend, Lizzie Borden used her ax and gave her mother 40 whacks and her father 41. In actuality, the police accused her of giving her father 10 whacks and her stepmom 19. Lizzie was acquitted at her trial of the double murder.
According to studies conducted at Northwestern University, men change their minds two to three times more than women. Women tend to take longer to make a decision, but once they do, they are more likely to stick to it.
According to the Federal Aviation Authority, United States airlines are four times safer than the airlines of any other country.
According to the federal Trade Commission, there are 20,000 television commercials made each year that are aimed exclusively at children. Of these, 7,000 are for sugared breakfast cereals.
According to the General Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, the typical American spends an average of one year of his or her life speaking on the telephone.
According to the New York Telephone Company, of the 398 million telephones in the world, more than one-third are in the United States.
According to the Public Carriage Office, a branch of the Metropolitan Police that licenses all cabs and drivers, there are more than 23,000 cabbies working in London, England. All are self-employed and none has a police record.
According to U.S. Treasury, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, there were more than 10 billion pennies minted in the United States in 1998. The actual number of coins produced, by denomination, was as follows: pennies, 10,257,400,000; nickels, 1,323,672,000; dimes, 2,335,300,000; quarters, 1,867,400,000; and half-dollars, 30,710,000.
Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger bought the first Hummer manufactured for civilian use in 1992. The vehicle weighed in at 6,300 pounds and was 7 feet wide.
It is believed that 90 percent of all scientists who have ever lived are alive now, and that as many scientific paper have been published in the years since 1950 as were published in all the centuries before 1950.
It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls – phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine – are made every day in the United States.
For commercial use, the skins of turkeys are tanned and used to make items like cowboy boots, belts, and other accessories.
It is estimated that a plastic container can resist decomposition for as long as 50,000 years.
Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
It is possible to drown and not die. Technically the term "drowning" refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.
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