Buckingham Palace has over six hundred rooms:Graucho

Karate actually originated in India, but was developed further in China.

A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.

Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpaste. :BangBang:

Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

A person would have to drink more than 12 cups of hot cocoa to equal the amount of caffeine found in one cup of coffee.

A tree in metropolitan area will survive for approximately eight years.:BangBang:

During the Easter season, 600 million Marshmallow Peeps are bought my Americans. The Marshmallow Peep is the most popular Easter candy besides chocolate.
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Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears. :BangBang:

Black pepper is the most popular spice in the world.

Approximately 850 peanuts make a 18 oz jar of peanut butter.

An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged. They all taste sweet.

Alcohol beverages have all 13 minerals necessary for human life.

A one kilogram packet of sugar will have about 5 million grains of sugar. :)

When an orange is shown in any of the "Godfather" movies, this means that someone is about to die or a close call is to occur.

The best selling game in history for coin-operated machines is Pac-Man.

In the game of Monopoly, the most landed on properties are B&O Railroad, Illinois Avenue, and "Go."

In an episode of the 1962 cartoon The Jestons, Jane Jetson is talking through a video phone. The phone number of The Jetsons was VENUS-1234.

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In 1894, the carnival made its debut in North America.

Surveys indicate that the number one reason people play BINGO is for leisure.

Close to 3 billion movie tickets are sold in India every year.

When Heinz launched their "green" ketchup in 2000, it delivered the highest increase in sales in the brand's history. It looks strange to me.

The largest bill U.S. bill made is for $100,000.

In New Jersey, cabbage can't be sold on Sunday. Just think cabbage and church.

The United States Postal Service handles over forty percent of the world's mail volume.

The search engine Google got its name from the word "googol," which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.

The revenue that is generated from gambling is more than the revenue that is generated from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and spectator sports combined.

The reason the Animal Crackers box is designed with a string handle is because when the popular circus theme was introduced in 1902 they thought it would also be a good idea to package them with a string as a Christmas novelty so they could be hung from Christmas trees.

As of 2002 the largest hotel in the world is the MGM Grand, which has 5.034 rooms and is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The first and longest lasting cartoon characters to promote a Kellogg's product are Snap! Crackle! Pop! from Rice Krispies cereal.

Retail sales for soft drinks in the United States in 2001 were more than sixty billion dollars.

Bill Bowerman, founder of the shoe company Nike, got his first shoe idea after staring at a waffle iron. This gave him the idea of using squared spikes to make the shoes lighter.

It cost the soft drink industry $100 million a year for thefts committed involving vending machines.

Americans write approximately 50 billion checks a year making it the second most frequent payment method used after cash.

It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.

In the late 1960's, Mountain Dew bottles featured a hillbilly on them. These are now collector items worth five to ten dollars.

In a study that was done by the University of Chicago in 1907, it was concluded that the easiest color to spot is yellow.

In 1992, approximately 750 deaths occurred in the United States due to workplace violence.

In 1945, a seven ounce bathroom cup was the first item Tupperware marketed.

Coca-cola used to use the slogan "Good to the last drop," in 1908. This slogan was later used by Maxwell House.

Approximately 7.5% of all office documents get lost.

The largest iceberg ever was sighted in the south Pacific Ocean in 1956. It was 208 miles long and 60 miles wide, about the size of Belgium.

Every year, Dunkin' Donuts serves an estimated 650 million cups of coffee.

Creator Ian Fleming's fictional character James Bond made his debut in the 1952 novel "Casino Royale".

There is an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.

The first American chess tournament was held in New York in 1843.

60% of all email sent is spam.

The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".