Random Facts no one needs to know

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If Earth was the size and weight of a table tennis ball, the Sun would measure 12 feet and weigh 3 tons. On this scale, the Earth would orbit the Sun at a distance of 1,325 feet.

If someone has a backyard pool big enough, the planet Saturn could float on the water's surface.

Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.

Today is my birthday.

In 1783 an Icelandic eruption threw up enough dust to temporarily block out the sun over Europe.

cats are pyromaniacs, and God didn't give cats the ability to speak because it would traumatize any human who heard such language

I've crossed over to the Late 1970s.

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God Save The Queen!

Joan Crawford and Bette Davis had feuded for years. During the making of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Davis had a Coca-Cola machine installed on the set due to Crawford's affiliation with Pepsi. (Crawford was the widow of Pepsi's CEO.) Joan got her revenge by putting weights in her pockets when Davis had to drag Crawford across the floor during certain scenes. On her tombstone is written "She did it the hard way."

About 20 to 30 volcanoes erupt each year, mostly under the sea

A huge underground river runs underneath the Nile, with six times more water than the river above.

Originally a palace, the Louvre was made into a museum after the French Revolution.

Gold's chemical symbol, Au, is derived from Aurora. Aurora is the Roman Goddess of the Dawn.

Roger Bannister claimed that he and his roommates had the messiest room in the entire Olympic Village during the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki. They lacked the energy to clean their room because they were all worried about their competitions. There were clothes, milk bottles and packets of patent medications lying around the room. They finally cleaned up after the Games were over.

The first drug that was offered as a water-soluble tablet, was aspirin in 1900.