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The top layer of a wedding cake, known as the groom's cake, is usually is a fruit cake so it will last until the couple's first anniversary, when they will eat it.

Months that begins with a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F".

Easter is the first Sunday after the first Saturday after the first full moon after the equinox. (The equinox is quite often March 21, but can also occur on the March 20 or 22.)

The average sixty minute audio cassette tape has 562.5 feet of tape in it.

If you told someone that they were one in a million, you'd be saying there were about 1,800 of them in China.

The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off, could throw a pickup truck over a mile. Source: Sean Ohlenkamp

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

A bonnet is the cap on the fire hydrant.

Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top
and sinking to the bottom.

Before Prohibition, Schlitz Brewery owned more property in Chicago than anyone else, except The Catholic Church.

All gondolas in Venice, Italy must be painted black, unless they belong to a high official. Source: David Katz-Doft

You can make a glass of apple cider with three apples. Source: David Katz-Doft

More money is printed daily for the Monopoly game than by the U.S. Treasury.

In the game Monopoly, the most money you can lose in one travel around the board (normal game rules, going to jail only once) is $26,040. The most money you can lose in one turn is $5070. Source: Evan Demere

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 building. Source: Nick Collins

The national average ACT score is 17.

The bubbles in Guiness Beer sink to the bottom rather than float to the top like all other beers. No one knows why.

The right side of a boat was called the starboard side due to the fact that the astronavigators used to stand out on the plank (which was on the right side) to get an unobstructed view of the stars. The left side was called the port side because that was the side that you put in on at the port. This was so that they didn't knock off the starboard! Source: Jeffery LaJaunie

But to the Norsemen the mistletoe was a baleful plant, because it caused the death of Baldur, the shining god of youth. Source: "Reader's Digest Book of Facts"

Nearly 50% of all bank robberies take place on Friday. Source: "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader"

It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to the New World. Source: "2201 Fascinating Facts"

A device invented as a primitive steam engine by the Greek engineer Hero, about the time of the birth of Christ, is used today as a rotating lawn sprinkler. Source: "Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts"

There are at least a half-million more automobiles in Los Angeles than there are people. Source: "Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts"

A person uses more household energy shaving with a hand razor at a sink (because of the water power, the water pump and so on) than he would by using an electric razor. Source: "2201 Fascinating Facts"

According to the Recruitment Code of the U. S. Navy, anyone "bearing an obscene and indecent" tattoo will be rejected. Source: "2201 Fascinating Facts"

There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of the thirteen blimps are in the United States.

The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY.

The familiar piece of wood known as a "two-by-four" is not two inches by four inches. Its actual size is one and one half by three and one half. The reason it's smaller than two-by-four is a long standing custom to measure wood before it's seasoned and planed. Source: "Knowledge in a Nutshell"

If a family had 2 servants or less in the U.S. in 1900, census takers recorded it as "lower middle-class." Source: "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader"

Although people in the majority of countries of the world drive on the right side of roads, there are some fifty nations in which people drive on the left. These include England and many of the former English colonies such as Australia and New Zealand -- but not the U.S. or Canada. There are several non-English countries where people also drive on the left including Japan. Source: "Knowledge in a Nutshell"

Ever wondered where the phrase "two bits" came from? Some of the coins used in the American colonies before the Revolutionary War were Spanish dollars, which could be cut into pieces, or bits. Since two pieces equaled one-fourth of a dollar, the expression "two bits" came into being as a name for 25¢. Source: "Knowledge in a Nutshell"

Coca-Cola contains neither coca nor cola.

Pepsi originally contained pepsin, therefore the name!

Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been over mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.