Impress your (4-year-old) friends: Snuffleupagus has a first name-Aloysius.
In 2008, French President Nicolas Sarkozy sued a doll company for issuing a likeness of him that buyers could stick pins in.
George Bernard Shaw coined the word 'sardoodledom' ('a melodramatic play with a drawn-out plot') to mock fellow playwright Victorien Sardou.
What does Porky's, the raunchy 80s movie, have to do with a wholesome film like A Christmas Story? Bob Clark directed both.
Cappuccino gets its name from Capuchin monks, whose robes are light brown.
Yankee Trivia: The "CC" in CC Sabathia stands for Carsten Charles. The "A.J." in A.J. Burnett is for Allan James.
Paul Revere's grandson was mortally wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.
Before John Madison Taylor invented his "reflex hammer" in 1888, doctors would simply whack their patients' legs with their hands.
Andrew Jackson's bi-lingual parrot Polly had to be removed from his funeral because it wouldn't stop cursing... in both Spanish and English!
Atilla the Hun was too important to be buried in just one coffin. Instead, his followers placed his body in a gold coffin inside a silver coffin inside a lead coffin.
Vladimir Lenin's "body brigade" has worked for 83 years to keep his dead body preserved. Twice a week his embalming is touched up, and every 18 months, he's outfitted with a new suit.
