Buckingham Palace consists of 600 rooms.
It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.
Shampoo was first marketed in the USA in 1930 by John Breck, who was the captain of a volunteer fire department.
The Colgate Company started out making starch, soap, and candles.
In order to sell his sets of Shakespeare door-to-door, David McConnell offered free perfume to his customers. He realized the perfume was more popular and began selling cosmetics door-to-door. This began the company that grew into Avon.
A lead pencil is good for about 50,000 words.
The use of telephone answering machines became popular in 1974.
