Not every pop band gets its name right the first time. For instance, Chicago got its start as Big Thing, and the Beach Boys were originally billed as Carl and the Passions. Polka Tulk eventually changed its name to the better-known Black Sabbath. Creedence Clearwater Revival started out as The Golliwogs.

In England, about 65 percent of all beer is consumed in pubs and other public places. But in the United States, only 26 percent of beer consumption takes place outside the home.

In the Disney animated film, "Dumbo," the flying elephant is the only major character in the film that never speaks.

Experts claim that the most difficult and deadly kung fu style is the one referred to as drunken boxing.

Garlic was often used by military medics in World War I as an antiseptic.

The English word "debt" comes from the old French "dette" and was spelled without the letter "b" until the thirteenth century in which scholars inserted the letter in order to make it appear that the word had come directly from the Latin "debita" or "owed."

Of the 148 U.S. polio cases reported between 1980 and 1997, 140 of them were caused by the vaccine itself.