Katherine Heigl made the lowest grossing movie of all time, which grossed $30.00 it’s opening weekend. $10 of that was refunded.

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Reindeer are the only species of deer in which both males and females grow long antlers, however, the sexes shed their respective antlers at different times! The females shed them around May, while males lose their racks during November. This means that male reindeer typically would not be sporting their antlers around Christmas

Then again, if reindeer could fly I’m sure they’d find a way to grow antlers in November.

Despite the name “pig skin”, modern day footballs are not made of pigs. Rather, they are made of cow hide. The term pig skin refers to rugby/Aussie Rules Football (the game from which American football derived) whose balls were actually made pig skin.

The NFL orders approximately 12,800 footballs per season.

In 1898, a boy actually drowned on a downtown Seattle street. Apparently he was trying to cross an enormous sinkhole on a raft, fell off, and couldn’t swim.

It’s on Wikipedia, so it must be true: Earth has approximately 6,740,000,000 human inhabitants as of November 2008. Projections indicate that the world’s human population will reach seven billion in 2013 and 9.2 billion in 2050.