The oldest animal on Earth was born in 1830 Her name is Harriet, she’s a Galapagos land tortoise.

Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.

The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

Ironically, Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is actually the official name for a phobia for long words.

Gabriel García Márquez cried for two hours with his wife after he wrote the death of Colonel Aureliano Buendía, a major character in his magnum opus One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Brothels were called fornices, i.e. “arches”, because prostitutes used to gather “under the arches” of certain buildings in ancient Rome to make contact with their customers. Hence: “Fornication.”

“Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”.

Rosebud was his childhood snow sled.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.