First truck called a 'pick-up' was an International Harvester S in 1921.

Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.

There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.

Think today's interest rates are high? The Pilgrims borrowed $7000 from a London company of 70 investors in 1620, and devoted the next 23 years to repaying it at 43 percent.

Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.

That phrase "hocus-pocus" started out as "hocus-pocus dominocus", and was, in the beginning, a mocking imitation of the holy incantations of the Catholic Church's Latin liturgy. So say the lexicologists.

If you're more than three feet away from a housefly, it can't see you.