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

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.

No single expression denotes love. It's so complex it requires combinations of expressions. These create an identifiable look. You see something like it sometimes in the eyes of slaughterhouse steers.

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.

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

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