· Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other simultaneously.

· More personal telephone calls are made on Mother's Day in the United States than on any other day in any other country.

· The first porn movie was the 1908 French film "Al'Ecu d'or oula Bonne Auberge."

· The names of all the continents end with the letter with which they begin.

· On every continent there is a city called Rome.

· China has the most TV sets (200 million).

· U.S. citizens watch the most television. By age 65, the average American has watched the equivalent of nine years of uninterrupted screening, viewing more than 20,000 TV commercials per year.

· The first TV commercial was a 20-second ad for a Bulova clock, broadcasted by WNBT New York during a game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies in July 1941. Bulova paid $9 for that first TV spot. Bulova also was the first watch in space.

· In "Father of the Bride," Annie and Bryan marry on Jan. 6. But in the opening montage of "Father of the Bride II," there is a framed invitation of their wedding that states they were married on Oct. 9.

· The longest kiss in a movie is in Andy Warhol's "Kiss." Rufus Collins and Naomi Levine kissed for the entire 50 minutes of the movie.

· Since 1495, no 25-year period has been without war.

· To make one kilo of honey, bees have to visit four million flowers, traveling a distance equal to four times around the earth.

· Botanically speaking, the banana is an herb and the tomato is a fruit.

· About one-third of recorded CDs are pirated.