- MTV (Music Television) made its debut at 12:01 a.m. August 1st 1981 (the first music video shown 'Video killed the radio star' by the Buggles).
- You brain weights 2% of your body weight though uses 20% of all oxygen you breathe and 15% of the bodys blood supply.
- Two of Snapple's founders were window washers in Brooklyn.
- 80% of burglaries are committed by people aged 13-21.
- Spiders have transparent blood.
- The bigger the orange the sweeter sweeter it is.
- The dollar values on the board game Monopoly have been the same since 1935.
- Earth's sky is purple, our eyes just see it as blue.
- The word utopia u2013 an ideal place u2013 ironically comes from a Greek word meaning u201cno place.u201d.
- Born in 1777, German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss contributed brilliant work in geometry, statistics, number theories, algebra and much more.
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