-Schrodinger's cat paradox outlines a situation in which a cat in a box must be considered, for all intents and purposes, simultaneously alive and dead. Schrodinger created this paradox as a justification for killing cats.

-The square root of rope is string.

-The value of Pi is the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter, in Euclidiean space.

-Pants were invented by sailors in the 16th centry to avoid Poseidon's wrath. It was believed that the sight of naked sailors angered the sea god.

-The first commercial airline flight took to the air in 1914. Everyone involved screamed the entire way.

-Contrary to popular belief, the Eskimo do not have one hundred different words for snow. They do, however, have two hundred and thirty-four words for fudge.

-Halley's Coment can be viewed orbiting Earth every seventy-six years. For the other seventry-five, it retreats into the heart of the sun, where it hibernates undisturbed.

-The most poisonous fish in the world is the orange ruffy. Everything but its eyes are made of a deadly poison. The ruffy's eyes are composed of a less harmful deadly poison.

-At some point in their lives 1 in 6 children will be adbucted by the Dutch.

-In Victorian England, a commoner was not allowed to look directly at the Queen, due to a belief at the time that the poor had the ability to steal thoughts. Science now believes that less than 4 percent of poor people are able to do this.

-89 percent of magic tricks are not magic. Technically they are sorcery.

-To make a photocopier, simply photocopy a mirror.