Among other well-known names, a group of fish can also be called a draught.
Happy Birthday To You was written as a classroom greeting in 1893 by two Louisville teachers, Mildred J. Hill and Dr. Patty Smith Hill.
Pearls hardly ever result from the intrusion of a grain of sand into an oyster’s shell. Instead a pearl forms when an organic irritant becomes trapped in the mollusk.
It was on this day, September 21, 1937, that The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkein, was published.
The sun is 330,300 times larger than Earth.
The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
An American Animal Hospital Association poll showed that 33 percent of dog owners admit that they talk to their dogs on the phone or leave messages on an answering machine while away.
More wool comes from the state of Texas than any other state in the United States.
The Amazon River's flow is 12 times that of the Mississippi.
More than 70 percent of all bagel shops in the United States are found in New York, New Jersey, Florida, and California.
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