Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada.
Among the Danakil tribesmen of Ethiopia, when a male dies his grave is marked with a stone for every man he killed.
Ancient Chinese artists freely painted scenes of nakedness and coition. Never, absolutely never, would they depict a simple bare female foot.
Anthropologists believe that people have been making and wearing shoes for more than 10,000 years. The Egyptians wore sandals woven from papyrus leaves.
James McNeill Whistler's best known painting, often called "Whistler's Mother," is actually titled "Arrangement in Black and Gray: The Artist's Mother."
Granite conducts sound ten times faster than air.
Japanese people do not have a middle name. In Japan, last name comes first, and the first name comes last.
Greece's national anthem has 158 verses.
Kettle drums were once used as currency on the island of Aler in Indonesia.
Kulang, China runs seven centers for recycled toothpicks. People bringing used toothpicks to the recycling centers are paid the equivalent of 35 cents per pound.
Helen of Troy was queen of Sparta.
Horse-racing regulations state that no race horse's name may contain more than eighteen letters. Names that are too long would be cumbersome on racing sheets.
Ladies in Europe took to wearing lightning rods on their hats and trailing a ground wire – a fad that began after Benjamin Franklin published instructions on how to make them, in his almanac, Poor Richard Improved, in 1753.
Hot water weighs more than cold.
Lead poisoning has been blamed for contributing to the fall of the Roman Empire. Women became infertile by drinking wine from vessels whose lead had dissolved in the wine, and the Roman upper classes died out within a couple centuries. The Romans used lead as a sweetening agent and as a cure for diarrhea. It added up to massive self-inflicted poisoning.
Houdini was the first man to fly an airplane solo in Australia.
Leather money was used in Russia right up until the 17th century, as was tea money in China.
Ideal Toy Company was the first company to mass produce teddy bears.
If a glass of water were magnified to the size of the Earth, the molecules comprising it would be about as big as a large orange.
Anyone writing a letter to the New York Times has one chance in 21 of having the letter published. Letter writers to the Washington Post do significantly better: one letter out of eight finds it way to print.
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