Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button. (That's surely impossible. According to KidsHealth, which claims to be “the largest and most visited site on the Web providing doctor-approved health information about children,” a belly button (or navel) is one of the very few features on the body that every single person in the world has. However, […]

The largest cabbage ever recorded weighed 144 pounds. (That's a lot of coleslaw!)

Sir Isaac Newton, who invented calculus, had trouble with names to the point where he would forget his brothers' names. (The principal reason for the common tendency to forget people's names is very simple - we usually don't pay enough attention when we hear them. But why are names so much harder than other things […]

Edited - According to the Guinness Book of Records, the world's largest pumpkin weighed 666.32 kg (1,469 lb) at the Pennsylvania Giant Pumpkin Growers Association Weigh-off, on October 1, 2005. (Now I know why my mum used to call me her little pumpkin.)

You can make edible cheese from the milk of 24 different mammals. (Well I know of 3; cows, goats and sheep. But I really don't want to think about the others. Eeeew!)

Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God. (Well maybe it is and we just don't know it. Mars is the Roman god of war, so wouldn't it be nice if Earth were the Goddess of peace? )