- Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
- There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casin0s.
- Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 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 original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!