Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when al original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case stored smaller, 'lower case' letters

40% of all indigestion remedies sold in the world are bought by Americans.

A meteor has only destroyed one satellite, which was the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.

If you head directly south from the west coast of Florida, you will actually pass South America on the west side of the continent.

The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.

Washington, D.C. has one lawyer for every 19 residents.

Alaska's annual 1,149 Iditarod race commemorates the 1925 Race for Life when 20 volunteer mushers relayed medicine from Anchorage to Nome to battle a children's diphtheria epidemic.

In Kansas it is illegal to catch bullfrogs in a tomato patch.

In the 14th century, the Arabs started to cultivate coffee plants. The first commercially grown and harvested coffee originated in the Arabian Peninsula near the port of Mocha.

Napoleon was terrified of cats.