Isaac Newton's only recorded utterance while he was a member of Parliament was a request to open the window.
Gordon Sumner, the rock star and actor known as Sting, got his nickname from the yellow-and-black jerseys he used to wear, which fellow musicians thought made him look like a bumble bee.
The average American casino gambler is white, male, college-educated, and in a higher income bracket than most. Thirty-seven percent of those gamblers earning more than $75,000 annually have gambled in a casino at least once in the past twelve months.
President Calvin Coolidge, thirtieth U.S. president, liked cats and would often walk around the office with his yellow cat draped over his shoulders like a fur piece.
Mary Todd Lincoln was so disliked in her day that she was nicknamed "The She-Wolf."
It is improper for women in Japan to go to a high-powered business meeting in a pantsuit/trousersuit.
Grover Cleveland is the only United States president to have been married in the White House.
President Franklin Pierce was arrested while in office for running over an old woman with his horse, but his case was dropped due to insufficient evidence in 1853.
It was leader Indira Gandhi who said, "You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
Harry S. Truman was the first president paid a salary of $100,000.
Men laugh longer, more loudly, and more often than women.
It was writer Rudyard Kipling who said, "I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble."
Helen Hunt, award-winning co-star of the TV sitcom Mad About You, appeared on the Mary Tyler Moore Show when she was 7 years old as the daughter of Murray Slaughter, played by Gavin MacLeod.
J.F. Cantrell opened the first washateria (laundromat) on April 18, 1934 in Fort Worth, Texas. It only had four machines.
Helen Keller (1880-1968), blind and deaf from an early age, developed her sense of smell so finely that she could identify friends by their personal odors.
Henry Cavendish, one of the great scientists of the 1700s, was painfully shy and could barely speak to one person – never to two. He was so timid in the presence of women that he communicated with his female servants by notes only. If one crossed his path in his house, she was fired on the spot. He built a separate entrance to the house so that he could come and go without meeting anyone. In the end, he insisted on dying alone.
"Belly up to the bar, boys!" Tom Arnold, Sandra Bullock, Chevy Chase, Bill Cosby, Kris Kristofferson, and Bruce Willis all worked as bartenders before making it in show business.
"If I Had a Hammer" — Chuck Berry, Art Garfunkle, Harrison Ford, Matt Le Blanc, and Robert Redford worked as carpenters early in their careers.
"Little Miss Sure Shot," Annie Oakley, had all of her gold shooting medals melted down, then sold the gold and gave the money to charity.
"Take a memo" — Before they made their marks in the entertainment industry, Bette Davis, Naomi Judd, Conan O'Brien, Ellen DeGeneres, Barbara Walters, Rue McCallahan, Irving Thalberg, Lily Tomlin, and Joanne Woodward all held jobs as secretaries.
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