· Milk chocolate was invented by Daniel Peter, who sold the concept to his neighbor Henri NestlŽ.

· In 1994, Chicago artist Dwight Kalb sent David Letterman a statue of Madonna made of 180 pounds of ham.

· Approximately one billion snails are served in restaurants annually.

· On June 21, 1913, over Los Angeles, Georgia Broadwick became the first woman to parachute from an airplane.

· Funds raised by the 2000 U.S. Presidential candidates:
Ralph Nader: $5,989,559;
Al Gore :$133,113,452;
George W. Bush: $187,202,363

· Ernest Vincent Wright's 1939 novel Gadsby has 50,110 words, none of which contain the letter "e."

· In 1816, Frenchman J.R. Ronden tried to stage a play that did not contain the letter "a." The Paris audience was offended, rioted and did not allow the play to finish.

· Boxing became a legal sport in 1901.

· More than 100 million people hold hunting licenses.

· About 500 small meteorites fall to earth every year but most fall in the sea and in unpopulated areas.

· There is no record of a person being killed by a meteorite but animals are occasionally hit.

· The Dead Sea is 365m (1,200 ft) below sea level.

· Traffic lights were used before the advent of the motorcar.

· If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1 percent, you'll feel thirsty.

· Einstein's brain was of average size (1375 grams ÷ 49oz).

· Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, suggested that a woman could enlarge her bust line by singing loudly and often.