more than you thought!

• Correction fluid was created by the mother of Monkee, Mike Nesmith.

• An item must contain 92.5% silver to be considered "sterling silver".
  

• Over 40% of the women in the U.S. have been a Girl Scout.

• The largest pyramid in the world is in Cholulu de Rivadahia, Mexico. (177 feet tall, covering 25 acres)

• Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to be appear on television. April 30, 1939.
  

• Prior to 1791, the U.S. Capitol was located in Philadelphia, York, Lancaster, Baltimore, Annapolis, Princeton, Trenton, and New York City. 

• Einstein never learned how to drive a car.

  Broccoli has twice as much Vitamin C as an orange.

• Saint Patrick was not Irish.

• A McDonald's drinking straw holds 7.7 ml (over 1.5 teaspoons) of fluid.

• It is not possible to fold a piece of paper in half more than seven times.

• The president on Mount Rushmore are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.
  

• Beavers front teeth have a tough orange coating that protects them from being broken or chipped while cutting wood.

• The highest NFL team score is 72, by the Washington Redskins against the New York Giants (41) at Washington, on November 27, 1966.

• The Yo-Yo was invented in ancient Greece over 3,000 years ago.

• America's first minimum wage began at 25 cents an hour back in 1938.

• Vermont, Alaska, Hawaii and Maine are the only states in the U.S. that do not allow billboards.
  

• New York was the last state to put photographs on driver's licenses in 1984.

• The Empire State Building bas 6,400 windows.
  

• It is considered an insult to tip at a restaurant in Iceland.

• Nearly 90% of food's flavor from its smell.

• The human nose can detect more than 10,000 different odors.

• Ocean water must reach a temperature of 82 degrees Fahrenheit for a hurricane to form.

• Ancient Greeks noticed that some of the stars in the sky wandered during the night. These were the planets. "Planets" is the Greek name for "Wandering Star."

• Zodiac is an ancient word for "Zoo" because of the many animals that make up the zodiac.

• New Jersey and Oregon are the only two states where it is illegal to pump your own gas.

• There are no venomous snakes in Maine.

• The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.

• Twelve percent of lightning strikes occur at golf courses.

• Some species of penguins can dive 90 feet underwater, and hold their breath for 20 minutes.

• We are born with 350 bones, and die with 206.

• There are 2,500,000 rivets in the Eiffel Tower.

• The height of the Eiffel Tower can vary as much as 6 inches depending on the temperature.