Eight eyes or not, the spider is "legally blind", in the human view of things

To many it's still a surprise to learn the whole of Canada is bigger than all of China.

England's King Richard II once pawned his crown to make ends meet.

Q. Where did the official U.S. Motto "E. Pluribus Unum" come from?
A. A poem called "Moretum." It turned up on the cover of "Gentleman's Magazine" in 1692 and became well-known in the colonies.

Q. Whst's the life span of that fish called the koi?
A. Typical - 30 years. Exceptional - 200 years.

In 1809 at England's Leominster, Jenny Pipes was strapped to a ducking stool and plunged into the River Arrow. It was the last known time an English town so punished a woman upon conviction as a "common scold."

Navajo tradition assigns gender to rain. Male rain is the brief, drenching, thunderous variety of late summer. Female rain is the long, soft, dampening drizzle of winter. The belief holds that the male rain, the power wash, drives off whatever bad there be, and the female rain, the tender rinse, brings forth the green and gold of spring.

It is claimed by those who purport to know that the Confederate Army's Robert E. Lee was the only person to date to graduate from West Point military academy without a single demerit.

Q. Riddle me this: The maker doesn't want it. The buyer doesn't use it. And the user doesn't see it. What is it?
A A coffin.

In the uncultivated heatherlands of old England lived the homeless of their time, and they, those poor folk on the heaths, were the first to be known as "heathens."

Q. What flowers bloom the longest?
A. Orchids

Q. What was the load limit of a Pony Express saddle bag?
A. Tops, 20 pounds.

In ancient Rome, the death penalty was decreed for female adultery and female alcoholism.

What we now call "light beer" was known as "small beer" in the Middle Ages, and the historical footnotes aver it was the drink of the lower classes.

Those who know massive construction say the concrete in Hoover Dam will not be fully cured for another 500 years.

World's largest mass transit program that only operates five days a week is the school bus system.

Q. Whst's the one thing everybody regardless of religiion believes is between Heavena nd Earth?
A. The word "and."

As a poor orpahned boy, Herbert Hoover got a job picking potato bugs off plants at $1 per 100 bugs.

Woolly Mammoths still lived 700 years after the Egyptians built the pyramids of Giza.

Japanese beetles get drunk on geraniums. Very drunk. They pass out, and remain non compos mentis for about eight hours, give or take.

No, it's not just the female mantis that devours the male. Any mantis will eat any other mantis, sizes permitting. The praying mantis is an equal opportunity cannibal.

Early filmmakers foresaw. So, they refused to give credits on screen to anybody, fearing if their actors became well known, those actors would demand more money. Lo! It happened.

Q. If the Alaskan brown bear isn't the boggest land animal in North America, what is?
A. The male bison, nine feet long, six feet tall, weighing up to 2,200 pounds.