· The game Monopoly was banned in the Soviet Union.

· Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president born in a hospital.

· There are seven points on the crown of the Statue of Liberty.

· The first Lifesaver was peppermint.

· The average car horn beeps in the key of F.

· The most common color on a state flag is blue.

· The letter "X" begins the fewest words in the English language.

· Autophobes avoid referring to themselves.

· If kept dimly lit or in running water, a goldfish will lose its color.

· The pilot in the first fatal plane crash was Orville Wright.

· The Virgin Mary has made the most appearances on the cover of TIME magazine.

· During World War II, the Oscar statuettes were made of plaster.

· Abraham Lincoln was watching the play "Our American Cousin," when he was assassinated.

· Morphine was named for Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams.

· An ostrich egg can make eleven and a half omelets. · A sneeze can travel as fast as 100 mph.

· In November, 1972, a student skydiver named Bob Hail jumped from his plane and quickly discovered that niether his regular parachute nor his backup chute had opened. He dropped 3,300 feet at a rate of 80 mph and landed on his face. "I screamed," Hail recalled later. "I knew I was dead and that my life was ended right then. There was nothing I could do." A few moments after landing, however, he got up and walked away with nothing worse than a broken nose and some missing teeth. No one has been able to explain how he escaped unhurt.

· The average American's vocabulary is 10,000 words.