Did you know?

Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.

Betsy Ross is the only real person to have been head on a Pez dispenser.

Queen Victoria's first name was Alexandria.

Locomotive 4472 is better known as the Flying Scotsman.

Elephants, lions and camels roamed Alaska 12,000 years ago.

Black pepper is the most popular spice in the world.

Richard Nixon once tried to offer tactics to an American football team.

After seeing Mt. Vesuvius erupt, Pliny the Younger wrote: " We were terrified to see everything changed, buried in ashes like snow drifts."

When David Davis of Clapman, London, died in 1778 he left five schillings to Mary David "to enable her to get drunk for the last time at my expense."

The Dictionary of National Biography on Queen Elizabeth I says: "she swore, she spat upon a courtier's coat when it did not please her taste, she beat her gentlewoman soundly, she kissed whom she pleased." She also had black teeth from eating too much sugar. But she did take a bath once a month.

The Regent's Park Zoo opened in 1828. The first elephant arrived in 1831, a rhinoceros in 1834, and the first giraffes in 1836, but non of these attained the superstar status of Obaysch, the hippo. Its popularity may have been boosted by the supposed identification of the hippopotamus with the biblical monster Behemoth mentioned in the book of Job .

If you want to hear the sound of thunder , the best place to go is Tororo, Uganda, where it thunders 251 days a year.

sources: www.all trivia.net; www.triviacountry.com; Encyclopedia of Useless Information by William Hartston