Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters
The longest one syllable word is “screeched”
No word in the English language rhymes with month
There are more then 30,000 diets on public record
A Goldfish’s attention span is three seconds
Animals that lay eggs don’t have belly buttons
Beavers can hold their breathe for 45 minutes under water
Slugs have 4 noses
Camels have 3 eyelids
Johannes Gutenberg is often credited as the inventor of the printing press in 1454. However, the Chinese actually printed from movable type in 1040 but later discarding the method. More
Rodin died of frostbite in 1917 when the French government refused him financial aid for a flat, yet they kept his statues warmly housed in museums.
The Statue of Liberty is the largest hammered copper statue in the world.
Vincent van Gogh, the world’s most valued painter, sold only painting in his entire life – to his brother who owned an art gallery. The painting is titled “Red Vineyard at Arles.”
The first illustrated book for children was published in Germany in 1658.
Usher holds the Star Search record for the longest note by a child: 12.1 seconds
Paris Hilton has size 11 feet! “All those super cute shoes like Guccis and Monolos look like clown shoes on me”
Colin Farrell says that Marilyn Monroe was the first woman he fell in love with. “I used to leave Smarties, the Irish equivalent of M&Ms, under my pillow with a little note saying, “I know you’re dead but these are very tasty and you should come and have a few. i wont tell anyone”
Brittany Murphy claims she started speaking at 4 and a half months. She also says she was a very “energetic child, really bubbly…extremely precocious”
In a high school talent show, Matt Damon performed the talking heads’ “Burning Down the House”