It’s illegal to order American food in a Chinese Restaurant. 
This is a fun “fact” I used on kids who, (way back when I was a bartender in a family Chinese Restaurant down on “the peninsula” in Alaska), would order a hamburger or something. It usually got me some BIG ole wide eyes, and their attention and made them giggle, (and their parents would tip me better!).
When Alexander The Great was waging war on the entire known world of his time, it chanced that he received a slight spear-wound on his wrist. Wrapping an old cloth around it, he continued the battle. After victory was his, one of his aides noticed that the dried blood on the rag around Alexander The Great’s wrist was lining up on it in such a way that if one looked at it in the light of the sun it resembled a sundial and you could tell the correct time.
So, they called it Alexander’s Rag-Time-Band.
My whole life.
The year 2011 will have more lunar and solar eclipses then any previous year in recorded history.
GrooOOOOAAaaan!
Self-made British multi-millionaire Andrew Lloyd Webber is very afraid of golddiggers after his second, trophy wife Sarah Brightman took him for all she could get in the divorce. He has forbid his children to marry anyone who is not as rich as he is, under the penalty of being disinherieted.
His son Nicholas’s wife Charlotte Windmill is the sole heir to the Dutch windmill company making fortune.
Almost 70% of all ladder injuries happen when the user is standing on the first or second rung.
So little is understood about crayfish taxonomy that scientists aren’t sure if they are descended from lobsters who adapted to fresh water, or descended from land-based isopods who adapted to water.
Some politician has introduced a bill to make it a law that every time a cell phone goes off in public, everyone must stop what they are doing to do a little dance as a tribute to KC & the Sunshime Band. Making a little love, however, is optional.
I just wanted to edit this one to make it Rule 7 compliant:
Sen. Bernie Sanders has announced plans to launch a 24-hour filibuster against the bill on the grounds that ‘The Hustle’ was performed by Van McCoy not KC & the Sunshine Band.
New fun fact of the day: To settle the “54-40 or Fight” dispute, the US & UK agreed that the land that became British Columbia and Alberta would be American territory but would be leased to the British (the same way that the New Terrotories of Hong Kong were leased from China to Britain for 99 years). The lease expires in 2017, which has led to growing tension between Canada (which inherited the leases on independence) and the US.
Statistically speaking, singer-songwriter is a more dangerous occupation than coal miner, window washer, or police officer.
On average, a pound of black peppercorns contains the heads of over 70 houseflies.
Owing to irregularities in the earth’s orbit, an extra “leap week” will have to be added to February 2264.
The whale family are the only seagoing mammals with clitorises.
Most “lost” motion pictures were burned for copyright reasons.
In colonial times, a dinner party was considered cursed if no one in attendance had lost a key during the preceding twelve-month period.
Some extremely large buildings would weigh less filled with water than with air.
The okapi derives its name from a Congolese anagram.
Ancient Mesopotamians used a substance similar to dental floss in place of toilet tissue.