- Highest Mountain: Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador. Due to the fact that the earth is not a perfect sphere and has a bulge at the Euator, the highest point on the planet (farthest from the Earth's center) is Mount Chimborazo - not Mount Everest, which is merely the highest point above sea-level.
- From the original Hebrew, God's Name is YHVH.
- Smokey The Bear was a cub rescued from a New Mexico fire in 1950 and has his own Zip Code: 20252 - given in 1964.
- George Washing was NOT the first president; John Hanson was. He was President from November 5, 1781 to November 3, 1782. Six other presidents were elected after him and BEFORE George Washington: Elias Boudinot (1783), Thomas Mifflin (1784), Richard Henry Lee (1785), Nathan Gorman (1786), Arthur St. Clair (1787), and Cyrus Griffin (1788)
- R-S-O-I-S-F is the call sign for the Russian Space Station for use with HAM radios.
- Tim Berners-Lee invented the Internet.
- Hurricane Levels: LEVEL & (WIND SPEEDS in Miles per Hour): 1 (74 - 95), 2 (96 - 110), 3 (111 - 130), 4 (131 - 155), and 5 (> 155)
- The 7 DWARFS' names were: SLEEPY, DOPEY, GRUMPY, HAPPY, SNEEZY, BASHFUL, & DOC.
- The only woman to win the Congressional Medal of Honor was Dr. Mary E. Walker - on 11/11/1865.
- We actually see the Sun "rise" about 2 minutes BEFORE it is above the horizon.
- To convert the year's number we all use every day to the Jewish Year, take current year + 3760 (Jan-Sept), + 3761 (Sept-Dec).
- To find how far the horizon is from where you are looking, use the following formula: D (to Horizon in Miles) = sqrt[7*(height in feet)/4]
- If you OR any of your friends are Roman Catholic, the number of beads on a Rosary is 59. Most Catholics do not know this.
- The sayings "See No Evil", "Speak NO Evil", and "Hear No Evil" are attributed in folklore to 3 monkies whose names are: See No Evil = Mizaru, Speak No Evil = Mazaru, and Hear No Evil = Mikazaru.
- The word "bedlam", meaning chaos or madness, comes from the Bethlem Hospital in London (for the insane in 1407).
- The symbols used in Morse Code are: