Illustration by Cody Angell

· The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

· Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side of roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5 p.m. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that this was the day of the changeover.

· If a statue in a park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

· No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

· Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down ÷ hence the expression "to get fired."

· Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village."

· There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

· Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on Aug. 2, but the last signature wasn't added until five years later.

· "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.