Vaudevillian Jack Norworth wrote "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" in
1908 after seeing a sign on a bus advertising BASEBALL TODAY - POLO
GROUNDS. Norworth and his friend Albert von Tilzer (who write the music)
had never been to a baseball game before his song became a hit sing-along.

The Japanese national anthem is expressed in only four lines. The Greek anthem runs 158 verses.

According to the folks at Disney - there are 6,469,952 spots painted on dogs in the original 101 Dalmatians.

When the Eiffel Tower was built in 1884, Parisians referred to it as "the tragic lamppost" and nearly universally hated it.

The Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. has 365 steps, representing every day of the year.

Ukulele means "little jumping flea" in Hawaiian.

Ever wonder how a mortician keeps a dead person's mouth shut? Undertakers pass a suture through he nasal septum and tie it to the lower lip. Or the use an injector needle gun to place wires into the lower and
upper jaws; these are then twisted together to close the mouth.

The twin towers of New Yorks World Trade Center contain 208 elevators. Elevators rank as the safest form of transportation, boasting only one fatality every 100 million miles traveled. Stairs, in comparison, are five times more dangerous.

Composer Richard Wagner was known to dress in historical costumes while writing his operas. He wasn't the only composer with quirks: Christopher Gluck would only write while seated in the middle of a field.
And Gioacchino Rossini reportedly could only find inspiration by getting profoundly drunk.

The Fish Bowl was invented by Countess Dubarry, Mistress of King Louis XV (Born 1710 Died 1774)

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I would not like to be the person that had to count the spots on the Dalmatians lol!

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