Amazing Facts Index

How Long Have Robots Been Around?
What Are the Biggest and Smallest Books in the World?
What Is the Biggest City in the World?
What Is the Oldest Building in the World?
How Are Shells Formed?
Where Did Water Get Its Name?
What Is the Smallest Country in the World?
What Country Has the Most Movie Theaters?
How Did a Hurricane Lead to a Famous Play?
How Did a Hurricane Stop a War?
Who Was the Man in the Iron Mask?
What Does a Furlong Have To Do with a Plow?
Why Is Brown Sugar Brown?
What Was Seward's Folly?
Where Is Mesopotamia?
What Is the Oldest City on Earth?
Why Does Food Spoil?
What Nation Has the Most Cars?
What Is the Most Common Vegetable in the World?
Why Is a Book of Maps Called an Atlas?
Where Is There a Country Without Women?
What Is the Most Valuable Book Ever Printed?
Where Are Two Different Alphabets Used in the Same Country?
Who Invented Potato Chips?
Why Do We Put Chlorine in Swimming Pools?
Can a Boat Sail Across the United States?
Could a Penny Dropped off a Skyscraper Really Kill Someone?
When Was Croquet Popular?
Is Hockey the Only Sport Played on Ice?
Does a Ventriloquist Speak with His Stomach?
Is There Really a Place Called Timbuktu?
How Did Jail Save a Man's Life?
What Was the War of the Roses?
What Does SOS Stand For?
What Causes Rust?
How Can We Know How Many People Watch a TV Show?
Did King Arthur Really Live?
How Much Television Do Americans Watch?
Do All Siamese Twins Come from Siam?
Where Do Prunes Come From?
What Painting Changed Its Name?
How Did the Eggplant Get Its Name?
How Many Precious Gems Are There?
What Is the Largest Gem in the World?
Is a Carat Different from a Karat?
What President Had the Shortest Term of Office?
What Animals Were the Canary Islands Named After?
Why Is the White House White?
Do Only Dogs Carry Rabies?
Does the Chinese Language Have an Alphabet?
What Are the Most Common Words in English?
Why Is Z the Last Letter in Our Alphabet?
Why Do We Have Both Capital and Small Letters?
How Many Instruments Are There in an Orchestra?
Where Did the Word Tobacco Come From?
What Is Snuff?
Why Is the Word Dollar Used for Our Money?
Why Is English Money Called a Pound?
Why Is a 25-Cent Coin Called Two Bits?
What Are American Coins Made Of?
Why Is "Three on a Match" Considered Unlucky?
Why Do Fly Swatters Work?
Where Is an Island Where No One Was Born or Died?
What Does Sabotage Have To Do with Shoes?
Why Is Blue Cheese Blue?
Where Was the Tomato Once Considered Poisonous?
What Is the Most Read Newspaper in the World?
What Is the Most Common Symbol on the Flags of the World?
What Is the Most Common Name in the World?
How Did "Buffalo Bill" Get His Name?
Why Were Spices So Valuable in Columbus's Time?
Is a Sweet Potato the Same As a Yam?
What Did Oysters Have To Do with Elections and Trials?
How Long Did the Pony Express Exist?
Where Does Ebony Come From?
What Is a Sardine?
Does Any Dictionary Have All the Words in Our Language?
What Country Changed Continents?
Is Britain the Same as England?
What Great City "Disappeared"?
Where Does Amber Come From?
Where Does Caviar Come From?
Are Pennsylvania Dutch People Really Dutch?
What Is a Chamois?
Why Is Some Mineral Water Bubbly?
How Did Marshmallows Get Their Name?
Are Marbles Made from Marble?
Where Is an Island You Can Walk To?
Is All Jade Green?
What Does a Muscle Have To Do with a Mouse?
What Was the Minotaur?
How Did the Echo Get Its Name?
Did People Always Think It's Good To Be Clean?
What English Queen Never Set Foot in England?
What Do A.M. and P.M. Mean?
Why Do We Say "O'Clock"?
Is Big Ben a Clock?
How Many States Were Named After People?
What Is the Most Popular Sport in the World?
Why Is a Marathon Running Race 26 Miles Long?

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