Ø      Samuel Clemens a.k.a. Mark Twain smoked forty cigars a day for the last years of his life.

Ø      Shakespeare spelled his OWN name several different ways.

Ø      The world's record for most children to one mother was 69 children.

Ø      The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

Ø      There are about 15,000 people in the U.S. over the age of 100.

Ø      Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

Ø      Two sisters in the U.S., Susan and Deborah weighed 205 and 124 pounds although they were only five and three years old respectively, in 1829.

Ø      Van Gogh committed suicide while painting Wheat Field with Crows.

Ø      Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.

Ø      Weird Al Yankovic received a bachelor's degree in architecture in 1981.

Ø      Worldwide, there are more statues of Joan of Arc than of anyone else. France alone has about 40,000 of them.

Ø      Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger bought the first Hummer manufactured for civilian use in 1992. The vehicle weighed in at 6,300 lbs and was 7 feet wide.

Ø      Actor Jim Carrey's middle name is Eugene.

Ø      Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

Ø      Burt Reynolds played football at Florida State University.

Ø      Shirley Temple made $1 million by the age of 10.

Ø      Tom Cruise's name was Thomas Mapother, before he changed it.

Ø      All U.S. Presidents have worn glasses; some of them just didn't like to be seen with them in public.

Ø      George Washington was deathly afraid of being buried alive. After he died, he wanted to be laid out for three days just to make sure he was dead.

Ø      No president was an only child.

Ø      The only three US presidents who ever had to deal with real or impending impeachment -- Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton -- all have names that are euphemisms for penis -- johnson, dick and willie.

Ø      All 17 children of Queen Anne died before she did.

Ø      Elvis Presley failed his music class in school.

Ø      Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle named was spelled Aron in honor of his brother.

Ø      Vanilla Ice's real name is Robert Van Winkle.

Ø      2,000 pounds of space dust and other space debris fall on the Earth everyday.

Ø      Approximately 1/3 of the Earth's land surface is desert.

Ø      Despite a population of over a billion, China has only about 200 family names.

Ø      Every cubic mile of seawater holds over 150 million tons of minerals.

Ø      Every year, Mexico City sinks about 10 inches.

Ø      In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

Ø      In the Durango desert, in Mexico, there's a creepy spot called the Zone of Silence. You can't pick up clear TV or radio signals. And locals say fireballs sometimes appear in the sky.

Ø      It's so hot in the Sahara Desert that rain evaporates before it even hits the sand.

Ø      Los Angeles and San Francisco become 2.5 inches closer together each year because they are on opposite sides of the San Andreas Fault.

Ø      More than 75% of all the countries in the world are north of the equator.

Ø      The Amazon rainforest produces half the world's oxygen supply.

Ø      The Boston University Bridge is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.