Ø      Parker Brothers prints about 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money in one year.  

--> "50 billion in one year? Woww!  Well, Windows 2002 should top that!"
                                                 - Bill Gates typing away

   Ø      Before Mickey Mouse, Felix the Cat was the most popular cartoon character.

Ø      Goofy actually started life as 'Dippy Dawg,' a combination of both Goofy and Pluto.

Ø      Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

Ø      Felix the Cat is the first cartoon character to ever have been made into a balloon for a parade.

Ø      Kathleen Turner was the voice of Jessica Rabbit, and Amy Irving was her singing voice.

Ø      Mickey Mouse was the first non-human to win an Oscar.

Ø      Mickey Mouse's ears are always turned to the front, no matter which direction his head is pointing.

Ø      November 18 is Mickey Mouse's birthday.

Ø      Of the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, all named after artists and/or sculptors, Donatello does not occur in the same time period as Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael.

   Ø      The most common initials for Superman's friends and enemies are L.L.

Ø      Walt Disney originally supplied the voice for his character Mickey Mouse.

Ø      Tennessee Avenue, GO, B&O Railroad, Free Parking and Illinois Avenue are the five squares in Monopoly on which you are most likely to land on.

Ø      The longest Monopoly game ever played was 1,680 hours long, that's 70 straight days!

Ø      A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background--when they say walla-walla it looks like they are actually talking.

Ø      The first female monster to appear on the big screen was Bride of Frankenstein.

Ø      The longest Hollywood kiss was from the 1941 film "You're in the Army Now", it lasted 3 minutes and 3 seconds.

Ø      The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

Ø      When the movie The Wizard of Oz first came out it got bad reviews. The critics said it was stupid and uncreative.

Ø      The audio CD first arrived in the US in 1984.

Ø      The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA.

Ø      The harmonica is the world's most popular instrument.

Ø      TV sitcom characters rarely say goodbye when they hang up the phone.

Ø      Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded. He also failed out of high school.

Ø      Harry Truman's middle name was just 'S'. It isn't short for anything. His parents could not decide between two different names beginning with S.

Ø      John D. Rockefeller was the first billionaire in the U.S.

Ø      Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

Ø      Mozart wrote the nursery rhyme "Twinkle twinkle, little star" at the age of five.

Ø      No one knows where Mozart is buried.

Ø      Robert E. Lee wore size 4-1/2 shoes.

Ø      Robert E. Lee, of the Confederate Army, remains the only person, to date, to have graduated from the West Point military academy without a single demerit.

Ø      Roger Ebert is the only film critic to have ever won the Pulitzer prize.