An Oscar weighs 7lbs. (That's the Academy Award prize of course.)

In 1221 Genghis Khan killed 1,748,000 people at Nishapur in one hour. (I don't think he did it alone though - let's face it all despots need help.)

The only words in the English language to contain 'uu' are: vacuum, residuum, and continuum.

The ampersand (you know the squiggly one &) was once a letter of the English alphabet. (I wonder how they pronounced it.)

According to some theories the monkey wrench was invented by London born blacksmith Charles Moncke. (A monkey wrench is a tool which has parts that can be moved to tighten or unfasten any size of nut and bolt, not to be confused with a spanner, which has a fixed size.  Allegedly it was called Moncke's […]

The electric shaver was patented on the 6th of November, 1928. (It was patented by Col. Jacob Schick, and you can still buy a Schick razor today.)