Did you ever wonder why that the area, in boxing in which the two fighters fight is square, yet it is referred to as a ring? The answer is that the original boxing sites were simply circles drawn in the dirt.

Shreded Wheat was the first breakfast cereal to be put on the market. It was invented by Henry D. Perkey, of Denver, Colorado in 1893.

There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.

When 7-UP soda was invented it was originally a caramel colored beverage.

World famous pianist, Liberace, once used the stage name Walter Busterkeys.

Did you ever wonder who to thank for the flushing toilet? I'm sure that it wasn't the most important thing on your mind. However, if you ever decide to thank someone for it, thank Crapper. That's right, Thomas Crapper invented the mechanism that allows your toilet to shut off the flow of clean water when the reservoir is full. Now you also know where one of the slang words for the toilet came from.

Of the coins currently minted in the United States, all the faces are facing to your left except for one. Which coin is facing to the right? For the answer you will have to look in your pocket.

The grandfather of Charles Lindbergh changed the family's name years before the famous flight. If he had not, our flying hero would have been known as Charles Manson.

Eighty percent of everything that is alive, is in the sea.

Beetle Bailey was banned from the comic pages of the U.S.Military's newspaper, Stars and Strips.

Your brain is 80% water. Heck, I know some people where it seems to be 80% air.

Shirley Temple was the original choice to play Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. Her studio, 20th. Century Fox wanted to much money so MGM decided to go with Judy Garland.

Why are Macadamia nuts not sold in their shells? If they were it would cause a very big problem. The shell of a Macadamia nut takes 300 pounds of pressure per sqaure inch to break. Very few people could squeeze a nut that hard.

The Smithsonian Institute adds almost 3,000 items to it's collection everyday.

When a person holds a sea shell up to their ear, the sound that they hear does not come from the sea shell. It is an echo of the blood passing through the veins of the listener's ear.

How many teeth does the average, run of the mill mosquito have. According to Issac Asimov, a mosquito has 47 teeth.

Have you ever had someone bet you that you couldn't say a particular tongue twister fast, three times in a row? I'll bet you can't say this tongue twister once correctly. "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick."

The insect known as "Daddy Long Legs" has fifty joints in every leg.

Carbonated soda started to appear in the late 1800's.

* Dr. Pepper 1886.

* Hires Root Beer 1886.

* Coca Cola 1886.

* Pepsi Cola 1898.

* 7-UP didn't come along until about 1929.