Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark. :/

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.

One of Hewlett Packard's first ideas was an automatic urinal flusher.

One out of three employees who received a promotion use a coffee mug with the company logo on it.

A strand from the web of a golden spider is as strong as a steel wire of the same size.

Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue.

Alexander Graham Bell (who invented the telephone) also set a world water-speed record of over seventy miles an hour at the age of 72.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

The dot that appears over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

So there you have it! You learn something new everyday- so they say :)