- Fungal remains found in coal is called sclerotinite.

- Once a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years before the first fruit is h arvested. - The infinity sign is called a lemniscate. - &, (the ampersand ) is a stylized version of the Latin word "et," meaning and. " - The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz. - A byte, in computerese, means 8 bits. A nibble is 4 bits, so two nibbles make a byte. - "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian "Shah Mat", meaning "the king is d ead". - The US government keeps its silver supply at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY (don't tell them I told you so). - Mohammed is the most common name in the world. - All the letters in the alphabet have one syllable except the letter W. - The only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category is Isaac Asimov . - Space Shuttle Astronauts are weightless not because there is no gravity, but b ecause they're free falling around the Earth. - The largest city in the U.S. with a one syllable name? Flint, Michigan. - The only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds restaurant is Montpelier, Verm ont. - The Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is traditionally responded to with, "and the rest of the day to yourself." - Beams of sunlight that shine down through the clouds are called crespucular ra ys. - Found in your throat, the hyoid bone is the only bone you have that is not att ached to another bone. - The first county to issue postage stamps was Great Britain. - The very small clouds, which look like they were broken off of larger clouds, are called scuds. - The moon has about the same volume as the Pacific Ocean. * Whales, elephants, mice and men all have seven neck vertebra. * A lobster needs about seven years to grow to be one pound.

* The Madagascar Hissing Cockroach gives birth to live young, rather than laying eggs. * An epidemic among animals is called an epizootic. * Humans and black lemurs are the only primates with blue eyes.