Good cider apples have great names: Hangdown, Chibble's Wilding, Kentish Fill-Basket & Glory of the West.
There really was a Captain Morgan. He was a Welsh pirate who later became the lieutenant governor of Jamaica.
Despite the horrific display, nearly two-thirds of those aboard the LZ 129 Hindenburg survived its fiery crash in 1937.
The G in "G-Spot" stands for Gräfenberg, a German doctor who studied female sexual physiology.
The cooking spray PAM actually stands for "Product of Arthur Meyerhoff"
When he died in 1977, Elvis had $1,055,173.69 in a non-interest-bearing checking account.
In 1988, the first Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance went
to Jethro Tull, beating out (among others) Metallica.
When An American in Paris won the Oscar for best picture (beating both the heavy favorites A Streetcar Named Desire and A Place in the Sun), there was an audible gasp from the audience.
In the 1922 Olympics, 22 male gymnasts scored perfect 10s... in rope climbing!
Even though domestic turkeys can't fly, their by-products are well-traveled. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin tore into their first meal on the Moon, those foil packets contained freeze-dried roast turkey with all the trimmings.
Jim Jones sold pet monkeys door-to-door to raise money to fund his own church that would be named Wings of Deliverance. He later renamed his church the Peoples Temple, located in Indianapolis.
