Amazing Facts - 37

1. Women are four times more likely to have foot problems than men

2. In 1783, the hot air balloon was invented in France.

3. There was an army general during the Liberia Civil War who used to lead his army into battle naked. His nickname was "General Butt Naked." Joshua Milton Blahyi (his real name) is now an evangelical preacher in Monrovia

4. There are no two zebras who have stripes that are exactly the same

5. The Angel Falls in Venezuela were named after an American pilot, Jimmy Angel, whose plane got stuck on top of the mountain while searching for gold

6. Lake Ontario was originally named Lake St. Louis

7. Actor John Travolta was offered the role of Billy Flynn many times for the movie "Chicago." Richard Gere ended up playing the role

8. The Canadian province of New Brunswick had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839

9. There are more than 2,400 flea species in the world

10. Ninety-nine percent of pumpkins sold in the United States are for the sole purpose of decoration

11. David McConnell started the California Perfume Company (CPC) in 1886. Today the company is known as Avon, which he named after his favorite playwright William Shakespeare, and Stratford on Avon

12. Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War

13. Chicago has the largest cookie factory, where Nabisco made over 4.6 billion "Oreo" cookies in 1997

14. In 1963, Mister Rogers was ordained as a Presbyterian minister

15. There was a post office on the Russian space station Mir. Visiting cosmonauts would use unique postal "markers" to stamp envelopes and other items as having flown aboard the Mir space station