Illustration by H. Arthur

· The basketball game with the highest total score was played on Dec. 13, 1983. The Detroit Pistons scored 186 points to beat the Denver Nuggets, with 184 points.

· Grover Cleveland is the only U.S. president to have been married in the White House.

· No one knows where Mozart is buried.

· The film "Quo Vadis" used 30,000 extras and 63 lions.

· Queen termites may live 50 years.

· Two out of three U.S. adults have hemorrhoids.

· There was a northwestern American Indian chief named Not Able to Fornicate.

· Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.

· It snows more in the Grand Canyon than in Minneapolis, Minn.

· The world's largest shopping bag measures 6 feet high, 4 feet wide and 7.8 inches deep.

· Mike Yikealo, of Japan, punched 10 TV sets in a time of 7.66 seconds; he holds the world record for fastest time to punch TV sets.

· Humans are the only animals who cry.