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Every northern state in the United States has a Springfield

 

In the well known movie trilogy The Lord of the Rings all the background swords are made of melted down skateboard wheels

 

The letter that is at the top on most eye charts is E

 

Peanuts appears the most in newspapers worldwide

 

Greenland is the world's largest island

 

Soccer is the world's most popular sport

 

The even-numbered of pages of a book are always on the left

 

The VW Beetle was designed by Enzo Ferrari, after being issued to by Hitler

 

There are 20 paper matches in a standard book

 

The plane that is landing, always has the right of way at an airport

 

Chalk is made of sea animal skeletons

 

No word in the English language rhythms with month, orange, silver, or purple

 

If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days you would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee

 

The plastic things on the end of shoe laces are called aglets

 

The dot over the letter I is called a tittle

 

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months enough gas would be produced to create the energy of and atomic bomb

 

A penny dropped from the CN tower won't penetrate bone or concrete, despite populare belief

 

400 people are killed a year by hippo's

 

The PT Cruiser is the exact same car as the Dodge Neon, only with a different frame

 

Each day, more than $40 Trillion Dollars changes hands worldwide

 

160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road

 

The symbol on the 'pound' key (#) is called an octothorpe

 

No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States

 

Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates

 

Mexican Jumping Beans jump because of moth larvae inside them

 

Streets in Japan do not have names

 

The first toilet being flushed in a motion picture was in the movie Psycho

 

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village"

 

It is impossible to fold a piece of paper more then 7 times

 

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