The largest ice cream sundae was made with 4,667 gallons of ice cream, was 12 feet high and had 7000 pounds of toppings on it. This was made in Anaheim, California in 1985
Back in 1796, dimes were called dismes
The word, tattoo originated from the Tahitain word "tattau" which means "to mark."
The United Parcel Service shipped the killer whale Keiko (star of Disney movie "Free Willy") from Mexico City to Newport, Oregon in 1998
There are approximately 7,000 feathers on an eagle
It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot
The official state mammal of Texas is the armadillo
The deepest cave in the world is the "Lamprechtsofen-Vogelshacht" cave which can be found in Salzburg, Austria. The cave is 5,354 feet deep
A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine
1 out of every 4 kids in the USA is overweight
The "Star Spangled Banner" did not become a national anthem until 1931. It was designated by an Act of Congress
Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process
There are over 600 different pasta shapes
The brain of an ant has about 250,000 brain cells