Beaver Cleaver's locker number is 9

Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.

The 1st performance of Handel's 'Messiah' was on April 13, 1742 at the New Music rooms in Fishamble St., Dublin. Because of the demand for space, the men were asked not to wear their swords and the ladies not to wear hooped skirts.

The number of triplets born in the US in 1994 (4,594) was more than triple the number born in 1971 (1,034), an increase attributed to older age of the mothers and the use of fertility-enhancing drugs and techniques.

Members of the Nazi SS had their blood type tattooed on their armpits.

Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.

A capon is a castrated rooster.

The act of snapping one's fingers has a name It is called a 'fillip'

During the Renaissance, fashionable aristocratic Italian women shaved their hair several inches back from their natural hairlines

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases