Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
RAMSES CONDOM
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
THE LONGEST PLACE NAME
The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiw en uaitnatahu, a New Zealand hill.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is *pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
SHREK
The accent that Mike Myers used for the character Shrek came from the accent that his mother would use when she was telling him bedtime stories when he was a child
QUEEN ELIZABETH 1
Queen Elizabeth I always wore a necklace with a little perfume bottle attached everywhere she went
PROTESTS USING BERT FROM SESAME STREET
Anti-American demonstrators protesting in Bangladesh after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks carried posters of Osama bin Laden sitting alongside Bert, a beloved Sesame Street Muppet character
CROSSWORD SUICIDE NOTE
In 1926, a waiter in Budapest committed suicide. He left his suicide note in the form of a crossword and the police had to get help from the public to solve it.
