Large dogs need to consume fewer calories per pound of body weight than smaller dogs.

Retrievers are the quickest learning and most trainable dog breed.

During pregnancy or lactation, a dog’s caloric (energy) requirement may as much as double.

When you don’t have a ruler handy and need to measure something small, use a quarter. A quarter is exactly one inch in diameter.

Since the 1930s, the town of Corona, Calif., has lost 17 of the time capsules its citizens have buried.

Romance novels account for 49 percent of all paperbacks sold in the United States annually, outselling the mystery, suspense and science fiction categories combined.

Americans spend $750 million on romance novels annually.

An estimated 200,000 family reunions are held annually in the United States.

Since 1903 (when Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith created them), over 100 billion Crayola crayons have been made.

The word “Crayola” was the brainchild of the wife of Edwin Binney (of crayon makers Binney & Smith), who joined the French term craie, meaning chalk or stick of color, with ola, from the word “oleaginous,” or oily.

More than 2 billion crayons are produced each year.

If all the regular-size Crayola crayons made in one year were laid end to end along the Equator (they would melt…), they would circle the Earth over 11/2  times.

Darlene Martin, a grandmother from Washington, won the 100 billionth Crayola crayon made by Binney & Smith. Mrs Martin won the crayon, which was made in the one-only color of blue ribbon, through a contest. She then sold it back to Binney & Smith for a $100,000 bond. The crayon is now in the Crayola Hall of Fame in Easton, PA.

The average child in the United States will wear down 730 crayons by his or her tenth birthday.

The most popular crayon color is blue, followed in order by red, violet, green, carnation pink, black, turquoise blue, blue green, periwinkle and magenta.

According to a Yale University study, the scent of Crayola crayons is among the 20 most recognizable smells to American adults. Coffee and peanut butter are Nos. 1 and 2; Crayola crayons are No. 18.

In 1990, after 37 years of service, Crayola products’ most senior crayon maker, Emerson Moser, retired after molding a record 1.4 billion crayons. Only then did he reveal a well-kept secret: Mr Moser was color blind!

Connecticut harvests about 3.5 million pounds of lobster annually.

The first commercial dog food was introduced in 1860.

According the American Kennel Club registrations, Labrador Retrievers are the most popular dog breed.

The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of  varieties of pickle the company once had.

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

The human stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.

A rat can be dropped from a height of 50 feet, and it will land without a scratch.

The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle.

A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.

Some insects can live up to a year without their head.

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

A duck’s quack does not echo. No one knows why.

A 2x4 is actually 11/2  by 3 /2  inches.

40 percent of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

Every person has a unique tongue print.

Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep.

315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

During the chariot scene in Ben Hur a small red car can be seen in the distance.

Einstein could not speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.

When he was young and poor, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.

Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.

Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other, at the same time.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.

Upper and lower case letters are named “upper” and “lower” because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the “upper case” letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, ‘lower case’ letters.

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple, and silver.

There are four cars and 11 lightposts on the back of a $10 bill.

Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him ten years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s Born in The USA.

The original name for the butterfly was “flutterby.”

Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

In Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

An elephant can smell water three miles away.

Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under is cap to keep him cool. He changed it every two innings.