According to The Old Farmer’s Almanac, “gals are more likely to plump their pillows, and guys prefer to fold them.”

At 207 years and counting, The Old Farmer’s Almanac is the oldest continuously published periodical in North America.

Frogs hear only the calls of other frogs and the noises made by predators. They hear very little else.

Porcupines on average have 30,000 quills.

Hawks see nearly eight times better than humans because their retinas have 1.5 million receptors, compared to man’s 200,000 receptors.

The heaviest and tallest flightless bird is the ostrich. The fastest is the Peregrine falcon.

Cows can make up to 14,400 defensive movements in 12 hours in an attempt to fend off stable flies.

According to The Fortean Times of London, worldwide weirdness was up a full four percent in 1996, the biggest jump since 1993.

Boston’s WBZ-4 was the first television station in New England. It went on-air on June 11, 1948.

A deltiologist is someone who researches and collects postcards.

Contrary to popular belief, George Washington never wore dentures made of wood.

A vexillologist is someone who studies flags.

Americans eat 20 billion hot dogs annually.

An estimated 131 million Americans regularly bicycle or walk for exercise, recreation or pure enjoyment.

The big brown bat consumes its weight in insects nightly.

If all the Americans who take transit to work decided to drive, their cars would circle the Earth with a line of traffic 23,000 miles long.

The average American spends one out of every $5 on auto-related expenses and puts in the equivalent of ten 40-hour work weeks driving each year.

Each commuter who stops driving to work alone and starts taking public transit would save 200 gallons of gasoline per year.

A ten percent increase in public transit use would save 135 million gallions of gasoline each year.

The French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was the son of two first cousins.

America’s first published black poet was Jupiter Hammon.

Hsing-Hsing, the Giant panda who resided at The National Zoological Park until his death in late 1999, loved Starbucks blueberry muffins.

George Washington was considered one of the finest horsemen of his time.

One of the products that came out of Mt Vernon when it was a working farm was whiskey. George Washington ate sparingly and drank even less, but he distilled and sold whiskey from his farm.

George Washington’s teeth were not made of wood, but were instead constructed from hippo tusks and other materials. They were very uncomfortable.