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People from Canada can order a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II and have it shipped to them for free.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE -
According to a court document, Johnny Depp spends more than $2 million per month to maintain his lavish lifestyle.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Netflix has been around longer than Google.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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More than one-quarter (28%) of Americans believe God played a major role in determining the outcome of the 2016 U.S. election.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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18 U.S. states ban or restrict car sales on Sundays.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The U.S. Navy produced six future presidents during World War II.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Michelangelo kept working until the week he died at the age of 88.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The U.S. military wanted the Golden Gate Bridge to be painted in stripes.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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As a youth, Malcom X got involved in drug dealing, gambling, prostitution and spent 6.5 years in jail.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt kept a total of 11 dogs at the White House during his 12 years and one month in residence.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The city of Edo formally changed its name to Tokyo, meaning "eastern capital", in 1868.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Archaeologists estimate Stonehenge was home to 150 or more cremation burials from 3000 B.C. to 2300 B.C., and they've called it Britain's biggest known cemetery of the time.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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An 18-year-old William Shakespeare married an older woman who was three months pregnant at the time.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Some historians believe that Columbus visited Iceland's Snaefellsnes Peninsula in 1477 and there learned of Viking explorations of the New World.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Iceland's population is smaller than that of Anaheim, California.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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On January 1, 1907 Theodore Roosevelt shook the hands of 8,510 people, setting a world record he held for over 70 years.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Despite being incarcerated in internment camps, thousands of Japanese-Americans fought for America in WWII— they had their own fighting unit.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The most expensive guitar ever sold was taken in 2005 for US$2.7 million at an auction in Qatar to raise funds for a charity helping tsunami victims.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The world record in cycling backwards playing a violin is 60.45 kilometres in 5 hours 8 seconds.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Snapchat founders had tried nearly 34 projects before coming up with the social network.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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There is no evidence that cursive has any benefits over other handwriting styles for the majority of children with normal development.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Granite blocks used for the King's chamber of the Great Pyramid, weighing as much as 60 to 80 tons each, were quarried nearly 500 miles away.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The most dangerous household item in a fire is a fridge-freezer.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Since 1980, 3 million refugees have entered the United States, with 85,000 arriving between October 2015 and September 2016.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Israel is the only country in the world to have a net gain of trees in the last 100 years.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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On the California side of the U.S.-Mexico border, there's a town called Calexico,and on the opposite side there's a town called Mexicali.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Magellan's expedition took 3 years to circumnavigate the globe. The International Space Station does the same thing every 92 minutes.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Modesto, California was named after its founders who were too modest to name it after themselves.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The historical Buddha was not obese. The "chubby Buddha" or "laughing Buddha" is a 10th-century Chinese folk hero by the name of Budai.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Rats and mice alone eat or spoil 20 percent of the world's food supply.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
