• Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants...
• There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver...
• A duck's quack does not echo...
• A Carnival cruise ship uses approximately 48,000 eggs per week...
• Root beer was first marketed during Prohibition; the name was intended to make it more desirable to drink...
• The name Wendy was actually made up for the story Peter Pan...
• "Weird Al" Yankovic was a straight A student in high school...
• A hummingbird weighs less than a penny...
• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie...
• A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100 of a second...
• In ancient Ireland, healers used poultices of arsenic to get rid of skin growths...
• In Star Wars, the character Chewbacca was inspired by George Lucas' Alaskan Malamute, Indiana...
• King Tutankhamen's death mask was 22 1/2 pounds of solid gold...
• One of the greatest heroes of ancient Ulster was Setanta, later named Cu Chulainn, due to his slaying the fierce hound of Culann at the age of six...
• The coyote is one of the fastest mammals in North America - it can reach speeds of 38.4 mph...
• The pansy, or heartsease, used to be used as a love potion - one drop of the juice in the eye of the one you love will make him or her love you in return...
• The Riddler's real name is E. Nigma, and before he turned to a life of crime, he operated a puzzle booth in a carnival...
• In 1990, Microsoft became the first software company to sell over a billion dollars in one year...
• The word unicorn(s) appears in the Bible a total of nine times...
• The word "God" doesn't appear once in the book of Esther, but in the original Hebrew, the word "Yahweh" is anagrammed, using the first letters of several verses...
• In Tolkien's world, Glaurung the Golden, dragon of Angband, was the first and the greatest of all the fire breathing dragons...
• Most of the unicorn tapestries and works of art were made in the 15th century, which was when the unicorn began to be revered as symbolic...

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