Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.

MICHIGAN - They take their milkshakes pretty seriously in Detroit. When Alfred Pointer and his wife complained about a watery milkshake they received from the drive through of a McDonald's restaurant, the attendant suggested Mr. Pointer come inside for a refund. There he was allegedly beaten by three employees. The couple has filed a $100 million lawsuit against McDonald's Corp. and the owners of the franchise. [If they get that upset over milkshakes in Detroit, I wonder what they would have done to him if he had said Chefs suck?]

On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper
left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a
spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).

According to the federal Center for Substance Abuse prevention, "For kids under twenty-one, there is no difference between alcohol and other drug use and abuse." Incredibly, it makes no distinction between a self-reliant 20 year old toasting his love at their wedding reception with a sip of champagne and a drug-addicted 20 year old doing crack cocaine!

The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the
creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N,
and O-Z, hence "Oz."

The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.

Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only
the left hand.

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.