Angel Falls in Venezuela is the highest waterfall in the world. (3,121 feet).
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only USA mobile National Monuments.
The only man made structure visible from space is the Great Wall of China.
The Bingham Canyon copper mine in Utah is the biggest manmade hole on Earth. It is more than a half-mile deep and 2.5 miles across.
Hawaii is the only state name that ends in three consecutive vowels.
Hawaii is the only state in the USA where coffee is commercially grown.
In Hawaii an auction was held every day for 10 years to sell off and get rid of furnishings and personal possessions of the royal family who was pushed out of power.
A statue of Christ is 28 feet underwater in Florida's John Pennekamp Coral Reef Park.
The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. is sinking into the ground at a rate of 6 inches per 100 years.
The Imperial Palace in Beijing, China is the largest palace in the world.It covers an area of 178 acres.
The University of Karueein is the oldest university in the world. It was founded in 859 A.D. in Fez Morocco.
The Henry Kaiser Concert Hall in Honolulu was built in 22 hours in 1957.
Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. The concrete in it will not even be fully cured for another 500 years.
Barbados got its name from the bearded fig trees that abound there.
Budapest started as two cities divided by a river.Buda lies on the right bank and Pest on the left bank of the Danube.
Burton Green founded Beverly Hills in 1906. The word Beverly came from Beverly of Beverly Farms,the retreat of President Howard Taft. Hills alluded to the rolling hills of the area.
The University of Alaska, which extends from a college in Kitchikan in southeastern Alaska to a "learning facility" in remote Adak in the Aleutians stretches over four time zones.
There are only five places in the world/universe where the American flag is never lowered (no matter what the reason). They are: The Alamo, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the SS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, the Betsy Ross House, and the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon.
A part time postal carrier named Patrick Sherrill was the first to go "postal" in August 1986, in Edmond, Oklahoma. He killed 14 co-workers and himself.
William Penn established Pennsylvania's first post office in 1683.
The Pony Express only lasted nineteen months, from April 1860 to October 1861.
America's first mailman began delivering mail in 1883 in Boston,Massachusetts. He was paid one penny for each letter delivered.
Rowland Hill advocated the use of prepaid adhesive postage stamps, which began in England in 1840 and rapidly spread throughout the world.
There has never been a President who was an only child.
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died July 4, 1826.
Woodrow Wilson was the only U.S. President to have a Ph.D.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to office four times.
Warren G. Harding was the only president who was a newspaper publisher.
David Rice Atchinson served as President for only one day on March 4, 1849.
Warren G. Harding was the first president to have a public golf course named after him.
President Hoover and his wife spoke Chinese when they did not want to be overheard.
The first statue outside the United States that honored Abraham Lincoln was erected in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The play Abraham Lincoln was watching on the night he was assasinated was "Our American Cousin".
The U.S. Secret Service has been guarding the President of the United States since the assassination of President William McKinley.
President Garfield could simultaneously write in Latin with one hand and in Greek with the other.
Thomas Jefferson's personal library consisting of over 6,000 books formed the basis of the Library of Congress. They
were purchased from him for $23,950.
Gerald Ford was the only President to have two women attempt to assassinate him.The first attempt was by Lynette Fromme. The next attempt was by Sara Jane Moore. Both attempts were in 1975.
John Quincy Adams was the first person to be elected President of the United States, despite not winning a majority of individual votes.
1. Artemision at Ephesus: A temple in Asia Minor built in honor of the Greek goddess of hunting and nature Ephesus.
2. The Colossus of Rhodes: Huge bronze statue of the sun god Helios sculpted by Chares of Lindos at the entrance of the harbor of the Mediterranean island of Rhodes in Greece.
3. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon: A palace with legendary gardens built on the banks of the Euphrates river by King Nebuchadnezzar II.
4. The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus: A tomb constructed for King Maussollos, Persian ruler of Caria.
5. Olympian Zeus: Huge statue of the Greek father of gods carved by the great sculptor Pheidias. It is located on the west coast of modern Greece, about 150 km west of Athens.
6. The Pyramids of Egypt: Most notably the Great Pyramid of Giza built near the ancient city of Memphis, as a tomb for the Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu.
7. The Tower of Pharos: It was a lighthouse used to mark the harbor, using fire at night and reflecting sun rays during the day. It was said to have a mirror so powerful that it's reflection could be seen more than 50 km (35 miles) off-shore. Sometimes referred to as the Lighthouse of Alexandria.
Pittsburgh is the only city where all major sports teams have the same colors: Black and Gold.
Tennis was invented in 1873 by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield. The first Tennis Tournament took place in Wimbledon, England, in 1877.
Dr. James Naismith came up with a new sport in 1891 called basketball. The first game of basketball was played in the YMCA gymnasium in
Springfield, December of 1891.
Chris Ford of the Boston Celtics made the first successful three point shot in pro basketball.
Volleyball was invented in 1895 by William G.Morgan, a physical director of the YMCA in Holyoke, Massachusets. He called it mintonette until a professor from
Springfield, Massachusets suggested the name of volleyball.
When golf balls were first created they were made out of small leather bags and filled with feathers.
In bullfighting the name of the maneuver in which the matador stands immobile and passes the cape slowly before the charging bull is called a veronica.
The Milwaukee Brewers was the last National league team to win the American
league pennant.
Deion Sanders was the first person to play in both a World Series and a Super Bowl.
The oldest sporting event in the United States is the Kentucky Derby. It has been run at Churchill Downs racetrack in Louisville, Kentucky since 1875. The Derby is always on the first Saturday in May.
Television sets have channels 2 and up, but no channel 1 because in the 1940's the FCC assigned channel 1 for two-way radios in taxis and mobile services,etc.
Jerry Seinfeld had a short-lived role on "Benson" during 1980-81 before making it big with his own popular TV show.
Harry Morgan is best remembered for his role of Colonel Potter in the popular TV series, M*A*S*H. He also played General Bartford Hamilton Steele in this series.
In the Carl Sagan television series, Cosmos the name of his ship was "Imagination".
John Citizen, U.S.A was the original title of the movie "Citizen Kane".
"Clarence The Angel" was a clockmaker when he was alive, in "It's A Wonderful Life"
Thurl Ravenscroft did the voice of Tony the Tiger for Kelloggs Frosted Flakes.
The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. Gilligan's first name is Willy.
Disney`s Donald Duck was originally called Donald Drake. His middle name is Fauntleroy.
On the vintage television show "Green Acres", the favorite meal that Lisa Douglas cooked all the time was hotcakes.
Bamboo Harvester was the real name of the horse who originally played "Mr. Ed".
"Harpo" Marx, one of the Marx Brothers and "Oprah" have names that are the same, except one is spelled forward and the other backward and both use the same exact letters.
Charlie Brown's father of the popular Peanuts cartoon is a barber.
Charlie Brown, of the Peanuts cartoon lives in Pinetree Corners.
In the TV show, "Simpsons", the original cat was killed. The replacement cat that was gotten after the tragedy was named Snowball2.
Diane Belmont was a name used by Lucille Ball when she was working as a hat model.
Wilma Slaghoopal & Betty Jean Mobricker are better known as Wilma Flintstone and Betty Rubble.
Lincoln Logs building blocks were designed by the son of architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1916.
Play-Doh was originally intended for cleaning wallpaper.
During the Vietnam War, soldiers used Slinkies as radio antennas by stretching the Slinkies between two trees.The Slinky was invented by Richard James.
In 1900 Lionel Cowen invented the first commercial toy train in America by using the motor from an electric fan.
The Ouija board game is thought to reveal unconscious emotions or thoughts. Ouija was named for the German and French words for yes - "oui" and "ja".
Barbie was created by Ruth Handler, and her husband, Elliott. The doll was named after their daughter. Ken is the name of the couple's son. Barbie's full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts.
Turn Iwatani invented the popular game Pac-Man. He was 27 years old and worked for Namco Limited of Japan.
Herb Schaper whittled the first "Cootie" out of wood in 1948. Schaper built by hand 40,000 wooden Cootie games. Three years later they used machinery to make them.
The English longbow was significant in enabling the English under Edward III and his son, the Black Prince, to defeat a much larger French army under Philip VI at Crecy in 1346 in the Hundred Years War.
Dutch inventor and engineer,Cornelius van Drebbel invented the submarine in 1624.
The name of General Lee's horse was Traveler.
The last major battle between U.S. troops and Native Americans was the Battle of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on December 29, 1890.
The military term SOP stands for Standing Operating Procedure, to indicate a set of instructions that lends itself to a definite or standardized procedure without loss of effectiveness.
