John Quincy Adams and Herbert Hoover both had pet alligators. Calvin Coolidge had two lions, a wallaby and a pygmy hippopotamus.
FDR's pet Scottish terrier, Fala, was an honorary private in the Army. His full name was Murray the Outlaw of Falahill.
The best way to tell if you have bad breath is to lick your wrist, let your saliva dry, then smell it.
Women have more bacteria on their hands than men do.
The inventor of the Slinky, Richard T. James, suffered a breakdown and moved to Bolivia to join a religious cult, leaving his wife Betty in charge of the company.
Cartoon character Sylvester the Cat's full name is Sylvester J. Pussycat.
The last time the Republican Party won a presidential election without somebody named either Bush or Nixon on the ticket was 1928.
The parachute was invented 120 years before the airplane.
The first comic book, The Comick Magazine, was published in London in 1796.
Some butterflies have fake heads on their butts to confuse predators.
