Los Angeles’s full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula”

The dot on top of an i is called a tittle.

Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy.

Cheddar cheese that has been ripened for six months is considered “mild.” Seven months to a year of ripening makes “sharp” cheddar, and two years worth of ageing yields an “extra sharp” product.

You’re born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.

Horatio Nelson, one of England’s most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.

It’s against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland

Badgers are closely related to otters, stoats, weasels, polecats and pine martens.

Mediterranean divers, before the Middle Ages, used to gather the golden strands of the pen shell, using them to weave a very fine cloth for the purpose of making womens’ gloves. The cloth was so fine, in fact, that a pair of these gloves could be packed into an empty walnut shell, or anything of comparable volume.

The first words that Thomas A. Edison spoke into the phonograph were, “Mary had a little lamb.”