In California, it is illegal to harpoon whales from a moving car.

Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night. 

Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star. 

Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.

A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.

Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.

There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.

The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.