Why does silk shine? A silk fiber is triangular. It reflects light much like a prism.

What was the original toll charge to cross the Brooklyn Bridge? A nickle a cow.

First prize in an original Olympic game was a stalk of celery.

People say the world is round when it's not because it's too much trouble to say it's "an oblate spheriod flattened at the poles and bulging at the equator."

If asked to bet on which weighs more, a hummingbird or a penny, bet on the penny.

A scottish leader named Sir William Wallace in 1305 was hanged, beheaded, disemboweled, and quartered. Language mechanics sometimes mention this when they define the word "overkill."

Whether a harnessed horse in front of a wagon pulls it or pushes it is still in debate. Some say, "Obviously, the horse pulls the wagon." Others say, "No, the horse pushes the the horse collar, and the horse collar pulls the wagon."

Olympic champion Jim Thorpe is credited with hitting three home runs into three different states in one baseball game. During a semi-pro event in a Texas ballpark, Thorpe put his first long ball over left field into Oklahoma, his second over right field into Arkansas, and his third into center field where it bounced to an in-the-park homer.

Why was prostitution outlawed in Las Vagas and Reno when it was legalized in all the rest of Neveda? Research by casino operatoes revealed tourists gambled a lot more money if husbands brought their wives!

Statistics indicate embezzlers get twice as much money from banks as bank robbers.

People named Chang worldwide outnumber all the people in Great Britain and Canada combined.

Half the member countries of the United Nations have smaller populations then North Carolina.

A group of Minnesota teachers in 1957 finally gave up on their plan to manufacture and market garden tools. To use leftover materials, they elected to make a few playthings for children. That's when they created their toy dump truck named in honor of nearby Lake Minnetonka. They've sold 30 million of those sturdy little Tonka trucks.

How many revolutions does the typical knuckle ball make on its way to the plate? A half revolution is said to be the pitcher's preference.

Claim is a wide-awake rabbit will fall asleep immediately if you inject it with some blood just taken from a sleeping rabbit.

Up jumps that dubious claim that one stone of the Great Pyramid's many stones is decorated with a hieroglyph that translates: "This end up."

Rangers at Yellowstone National Park report they're asked on occasion: "We had no trouble finding the park entrances, but where are the exits?"

San Francisco law stipulates you can't lead an elephant down Market Street unless it's on a leash.