A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
The song American Pie has the lines, "Drove my Chevy to the Levy, but the Levy was dry. Them good old boys were drinking whisky in Rye." The Levy was a bar, and Rye is a small city in New York. Most people think the levy is the thing that holds water back and Rye as the liquor.
The first product to have a UPC bar code on its packaging was Wrigley's gum.
It takes eighteen minutes to cool hot chocolate into a Hershey's Kiss.
You should not eat a crawfish with a straight tail. It was dead before it was cooked.
The distance between an alligator's eyes, in inches, is directly proportional to the length of the alligator, in feet.
The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.
Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators where it was first developed.
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
The "huddle" in football was formed due a deaf football player who used sign language to communicate and his team didn't want the opposition to see the signals he used and in turn huddled around him.
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
A small tribe named the Todas in southern India don't greet each other with a handshake, they thumb their noses.
The liver, not the heart, is the sign of romance in northern Morocco. When a Moroccan girl falls in love she says, "Darling, you have stolen my liver."
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