Trivia and Amazing Facts
- When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka
- Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year
- The word "dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in the letters "mt."
- The first children's book that was published in the U.S. was called "Spiritual Mild for Boston Babes in wither England Drawn from the Breast of Both Testaments for Their Soul's Nourishment."
- In 1822, in his book Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas DeQuincy invented the word "tranquilizer" to describe the effect of opium
