Before, all-porcelain false teeth were perfected in the mid-19th century, dentures were commonly made with teeth pulled from the mouths of dead soldiers following a battle. Teeth extracted from U.S. Civil War soldier cadavers were shipped to England by the barrel to dentists.
A rainbow can be seen only in the morning or late afternoon. It is a phenomenon that can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.
Alaska has a sand desert with dunes over 100 feet high. It is located along the flatland of the Kobuk River in the northwestern part of the state
Catherine de Medici was the first woman in Europe to use tobacco. She took it in a mixture of snuff.
The average American consumes 1,500 pounds of food each year. 1,000 gallons of water are required to grow and process each pound of that food. This means that in the U.S., in a single year, an average of 1.5 million gallons of water is invested in the food eaten by just one person. This 200,000-cubic-feet-plus of water-per-person would be enough to cover a football field four feet deep.
Sleeping Beauty's name was Princess Aurora. The prince who woke her with a kiss was Prince Philip.
The diameter of the wire in a standard paper clip is 1 millimeter - or about 0.04 inch.
Most precious gems are actually colorless. Their color comes form impurities in the stone than act as pigmenting agents.
The United States Postal Service assures its customers that whey will not get fat licking stamps. There is no more than one-tenth of a calorie's worth of glue on every stamp.
Neck ties were first worn in Croatia. That's why they were called cravats (CRO-vats).
No one can drown in the Dead Sea. It is 25 percent salt, which makes the water very heavy.
The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet.