1. Blue jeans were invented by Levi Strauss in 1873.
2. The denim fabric used to make jeans was originally called “Genes” and came from Genoa, Italy.
3. Jeans were created for coal miners in California, who were wearing out their pants quickly while working hard in the mines.
4. The metal rivets that […]

Everyone is afraid of something, whether they will admit to it or not. While fears of heights, spiders, water and snakes are fairly common, there are people in the world who suffer from stranger aversions and fears.
Can you imagine going through life with ambulophobia, or the fear of walking? Or how […]

1. This well-known television personality was the dean of children’s entertainers for 29 years, with the help of furry critters – one wore glasses, and one danced. A farmer donning overalls was his sidekick. His show, which was canceled in 1984, was the longest-running children’s program in television history. Who is it? […]

The world’s largest organism is the honey mushroom. Though you may have heard of this fungus, I wonder if you realize just how invasive it is. Researchers took a closer look at the honey mushroom when it was discovered that it was killing off hundreds of evergreen trees in Oregon.
What researchers found when they […]

· Polar bears are the largest land predator in the world.
· A polar bear’s fur is not white; it is colorless. A reflection off the bear’s fur shatters light and makes the fur look white.
· If you plucked out a polar bear’s fur (which I don’t recommend) you would find that its skin is black. The black skin […]

If you think the name of your town is a little strange, think about how you would feel if you lived in one of these towns!
You’ll never have to worry about frostbite in Frostproof, Florida! Or, if you’re looking for somewhere really agreeable, try Okay, Oklahoma; or how about Nameless, Texas, where anonymity is […]

· A violin is made of seventy pieces of wood.
· Glass takes one million years to decompose.
· The temperature at the sun’s surface is ten times cooler than a bolt of lightning.
· Half of all newspapers printed in the entire world are published in the US and Canada.
· Four million phone solicitation calls are made in the US daily.
· Breaking glass […]

· The human body creates and kills 15 million red blood cells every second.
· It is faster to ride a bicycle in Tokyo for any trip up to 50 minutes than it is to drive a car. Why? Because of the traffic congestion.
· Leonardo Di Vinci’s Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. The fashion of the day mandated that […]

1. Green was the original color of Coke.
2. The Hawaiian alphabet consists of 12 letters.
3. Hong Kong is the city with the most Rolls Royce per capita.
4. Alaska is proven to have the highest number of individuals that walk to work than any other state in the Country.
5. The average cost to raise a dog […]

- Little Known facts about France
- To be exact, you are never more than 400 meters away from a subway station in Paris.
- Politicians in France are legally able to hold more than one office at the same time.
- In France, you will find twenty seven wine regions.
- Cheese that is best eaten after thirty […]