By law, in Bourbon, Mississippi, one small onion must be served with each
glass of water in a restaurant.

The Tower of Independence clock on the back of a U.S. $100 dollar bill
shows the time as 4:10.

The Union ironclad, Monitor, was the first U.S. ship to have a flush toilet.

The U.S. city with the highest rate of lightning strikes per capita is
Clearwater, Florida.

It would take 13 years and eight months to stay one night in every room
at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.

Kitsap County, Washington, was originally called Slaughter County, and
the first hotel there was called the Slaughter House.

Men are 1.6 times more likely to undergo by-pass surgery than women.

There are 10 million bricks in the Empire State building. Bob Dole is
10 years older than the Empire State Building.

The University of Calgary offers a two-day course in igloo building.

Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.

The zoo in Tokyo closes for two months of the year so animals can have a
holiday from visitors.

Methane gas can often be seen bubbling up from the bottom of ponds. It
is produced by the decomposition of dead plants and animals in the mud.

The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing
less than a penny.

A garter snake can give birth to 85 babies.

If you unfolded and laid out the delicate membranes from inside a dogs
nose, the membranes would be larger than the dog itself.

Kangaroos can hop as fast as 40 miles per hour.