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“‘Cheshire Puss,’ she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. `Come, it’s pleased so far,’ thought Alice, and she went on. `Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’

‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat.

`I don’t much care where–’ said Alice.

`Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat.

`–so long as I get SOMEWHERE,’ Alice added as an explanation.

`Oh, you’re sure to do that,’ said the Cat, `if you only walk long enough.’” –Lewis Carroll in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

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• Leonardo da Vinci spent 12 years painting the Mona Lisa’s lips.
• Table salt is the only commodity that hasn’t risen dramatically in price in the last one hundred and fifty years.
• Alexander Graham Bell never telephoned his wife or mother. They were both deaf.
• Less than 2% of the water on Earth is fresh.
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched.
• In Fantasia, the sorcerer’s name is Yensid – Disney spelled backwards.
• Wine will spoil if exposed to light, hence the tinted bottles.

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• Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison were all twenty-seven years old when they died.
• Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than by the U.S. Treasury.
• The color of chili is the best indication of its spiciness.
• Tweety used to be a baby bird without feathers until the censors decided he looked naked that way.
• Napoleon Bonaparte was afraid of cats.
• The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
• Colgate faced a big obstacle in marketing toothpaste in Spanish-speaking countries. Colgate translated into the command “go hang yourself.”
• The only real food U.S. astronauts are allowed to eat in space are pecans.