· The graham cracker was named after Sylvester Graham (1974-1851). A New England minister, Graham not only invented the cracker, but also published a journal in Boston that took a rabid stand against tea, coffee, feather beds, and women's corsets.

· President James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other simultaneously. Leonardo da Vinci could draw with one hand and write with the other, also simultaneously.

· According to the National Safety Council, a toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.

· Tobacco was originally smoked through the nose. American Indians fashioned a special pipe with a forked end, designed to fit into the nostrils. The smoke was then inhaled through these ends by short, violent snorts. The name of the this pipe was tubak- and thus our word "tobacco."

· In ancient Greece, a boxing match began with two boxers standing face to face, their noses touching. Greek boxers wore leather thongs embedded with metal studs strapped on their wrists. At one time metal spikes were added, too.

· Sitophobia is the fear of food.

· The Niagara Falls have eroded their way 10 miles upstream since they were first formed some 10,000 years ago. The tremendous amount of water tends to eat through its limestone base relatively rapidly, and if erosion continues at its present rate, geologists estimate that the falls will disappear completely in 22,000 years.