Illustration by Arnulfo Bermudez

· Gary Stewart jumped a record 177,737 times on a pogo stick between May 25 and May 26, 1990.

· King John did not sign the Magna Carta in 1215. He could not write his own name, so he embossed it with his seal.

· The longest wedding dress train measured 670 feet. It was worn by Hege Lorence and needed 186 bridesmaids and pageboys to carry it.

· A mosquito engorged in blood is able to carry twice its own weight while flying.

· A "tang" is the prong of a fork.

· Of the world's 2.5 million physicians, one in five is Russian.

· A whale's eye is fixed in place, so the whale must move its body to shift its line of sight.

· Louise Greenfarb has collected more than 29,000 refrigerator magnets.

· It takes one day to get a divorce in the Dominican Republic.

· Residents of Nevada bet an average of $846 per year in casinos.

· American citizens may name any unnamed mountain or hill, as long as they do not name it after themselves. All you have to do is obtain a U.S. Geological Survey topographical map and find a peak with no title. You then mail in your suggestion to the Domestic Geographical Names Department.

· A "plunger" is the disconnect button on a phone.

· Niagara Falls has eroded its way 10 miles upstream since it first formed 10,000 years ago.

· A spider's penis is located at the end of one of its legs.

· Calama, in the Atacama Desert in Chile, is the driest place on Earth. No drop of rain has ever been seen there.

· People who have never been married are 7 1/2 times more likely to be hospitalized in a psychiatric facility than those who are married.

· Peter the Great had his wife's lover executed and his head put into a jar of alcohol. She had to keep it in her bedroom.