There have been over 20,000 books written about the game of Chess. The main library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the...

Credit cards become popularly successful in the 1920s. Visa was originally called BankAmericard, a card offered by Bank of America in 1958 in California. 78 percent of American households -- about 91.1 million -- had one or more credit cards at...

The word perfume that comes from Latin per fumum, which means "through smoke" (per means through, fumum means smoke). People used to make perfumes from spices and herbs like bergamot, myrtle, coriander, conifer resin, and almond. Perfumes are...

Cotton accounts for about 40 percent of total world fiber production. There are 35,000 cotton farms in the U.S. There is more cotton grown globally than any other non-edible crop. Cottonseed oil is cholesterol-free, high in poly-unsaturated...

Guns are used nearly 2.5 millioin times a year for self-defense.Americans use firearms to defend themselves from criminals at least 764,000 times a year. There are about 60 million handguns in the United States. About 2 to 3 million new and used...

The Great Wall of China is the only man made structure visible from space. Breaking of a glass is traditional in some wedding ceremonies. This custom symbolizes different things. To some its the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, and for...

The 5 Poetical Books are: Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon. The number 40 is used many times in the Bible. It often means God is about to usher in a new event or era. For instances, rain during the flood lasted 40 days,...

Chemical symbol is Au from the Latin word 'aurum' which means "shining dawn" . A carat was originally a unit of mass based on the carob seed used by ancient merchants. Gold was discovered in Ancient times and used by the ancient South Americans,...

Water...It makes up 85 percent of the body and covers over two-thirds of the world's surface. No doubt about it, without it, we would perish! Doctor's tell us water is necessary for the body's total overall well-being and fitness. Every cell process...

Worldwide, women prefer to marry men who are older than they are and vice versa. Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore marriage is an institution for the blind. After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin. They just can't...

The Godfather was the first movie in over twenty years in which Marlon Brando was required to audition. It took $7,500,000 to build the Titanic, approximately 20,000,000 tons of iceberg to sink it, and $200,000,000 to make a movie about it. In...