- The first Academy Awards were presented in 1927.
- The training mantra of the Navy SEALs is, “The only easy day was yesterday.”
- Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
- There are at least 41,806 different spoken languages in the world.
- Cheetahs were originally called Leopards.
- HippopotomonstrosesquiPPedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
- “Romanji” is a system of writing Japanese using the Latin alphabet.
- The lifespan of a house fly is about two weeks.
- Birds have hollow bones which help them fly.
- “Underground” is the only word in English that begins and ends with the letters “und”.