Did You Know?

Beethoven and George Washington were alive at the same time - in fact, George Washington was in his 40s when Beethoven was born.

The last veteran of the American Civil War died in 1959, long enough to see the atomic bomb dropped in Japan.

There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms on Earth.

Cows have best friends and they tend to spend most of their time together.

Horses are not able to breathe through their mouths.

In the ’60s, Australia lost a prime minister and could not find him. He disappeared and was never found.

If you folded a piece of paper 42 times, it would reach to the moon.

Light roast coffees have more caffeine than dark roasts.

There is a basketball court on the top floor of the U.S. Supreme Court Building. It’s known as the “highest court in the land.”

Hours before his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. had a pillow fight in the hotel he was staying at.

New York City is further south than Rome, Italy.

Scotland is farther north than Alaska.

Not only is Reno, Nev., west of Los Angeles, but so are six state capitals.

If you’re in Detroit and you walk south, you’ll actually walk into Canada.