The chemicals indole and skatole, which help to account for the particular smell of human feces, are used as ingredients in perfume!

The country of Brazil is named after the brazil nut.

The city of Las Vegas has the most hotel rooms in the world.

The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!

The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The Dallas/Ft. Worth airport is larger than New York Citys Manhattan Island.

The distress code Mayday comes from the French for help me, MAide!

The dot over the letter i is called a tittle.

The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.