If humans could jump like fleas, they'd be able to leap over a 100-story building in a single bound.
---Kim Basinger's mother had been a champion swimmer who performed water ballets in several Esther Williams movies in the 1940s.
---The Bledowska Desert, in Poland is the only true desert in Europe.
---Sixty-two degrees Fahrenheit is the minimum temperature required for a grasshopper to be able to hop.
---There was only one pointer, the hour hand, on the first clocks made in the fourteenth century. The minute and seconds hands were added in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
---Rubies and sapphires are made of corundum ? the hardest known rock after the diamond.
---The Lord's Prayer appears twice in the Bible, in Matthew VI and Luke XI.
---The studios wanted Matthew McConaughey, the newest heartthrob in the industry, cast as hero Jack Dawson in the 1997 box office hit Titanic, but director James Cameron insisted on Leonardo DiCaprio.
---In the film industry, a "hot set" is a set that is ready for use and is not to be disturbed.
---Muppets creator Jim Henson first created Kermit in 1955 ? as a lizard. He was made from Henson's mother's coat and two halfs of a Ping-Pong ball (no flipper feet or eleven-point collar). He didn't become a frog until 1968.
---The planet Venus does not tilt as it goes around the Sun, so consequently, it has no seasons. On Mars, however, the seasons are more exaggerated and last much longer than on Earth.
---Oscan was an Italian language spoken in much of central and south Italy. It was gradually supplanted by Latin after the absorption the area by Rome in the third century.
---The name of the statuette atop the hood of every Rolls Royce car is: The Spirit of Ecstasy.
---The Bledowska Desert, in Poland is the only true desert in Europe.
---Sixty-two degrees Fahrenheit is the minimum temperature required for a grasshopper to be able to hop.
---There was only one pointer, the hour hand, on the first clocks made in the fourteenth century. The minute and seconds hands were added in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
---Rubies and sapphires are made of corundum ? the hardest known rock after the diamond.
---The Lord's Prayer appears twice in the Bible, in Matthew VI and Luke XI.
---The studios wanted Matthew McConaughey, the newest heartthrob in the industry, cast as hero Jack Dawson in the 1997 box office hit Titanic, but director James Cameron insisted on Leonardo DiCaprio.
---In the film industry, a "hot set" is a set that is ready for use and is not to be disturbed.
---Muppets creator Jim Henson first created Kermit in 1955 ? as a lizard. He was made from Henson's mother's coat and two halfs of a Ping-Pong ball (no flipper feet or eleven-point collar). He didn't become a frog until 1968.
---The planet Venus does not tilt as it goes around the Sun, so consequently, it has no seasons. On Mars, however, the seasons are more exaggerated and last much longer than on Earth.
---Oscan was an Italian language spoken in much of central and south Italy. It was gradually supplanted by Latin after the absorption the area by Rome in the third century.
---The name of the statuette atop the hood of every Rolls Royce car is: The Spirit of Ecstasy.