The pet ferret was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat. (Don't tell my cat! He would be most offended.)

Walt Disney was afraid of mice. (Maybe Mickey was an attempt for him to confront his fears?)

The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the mornin' to you," is "And the rest of the day to yourself." (Is that Irish for "Go away and leave me alone"?)

The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper. (His name might be a clue to where the word "crap" came from.)

f you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. (Some people say that the rainbow isn't really there, that it's only an effect the light makes with the raindrops in the sky...the raindrops work as a prism and create a rainbow when the light shines through. I like to thing […]

Toilet paper was invented in 1857. (I wonder what they used before that?)