Diane Sawyer, ABC News Anchor, owns her own drag racing team and regularly races (see picture).

Potatoes contain trace amounts of TNT.

When George Eastman was considering a name for his photographic company he considered Poota, before settling on Kodak.

The Seattle Seahawks were the first American football team have a logo painted on to their helmets.

The Teletubbies are the world’s most successful live action children’s show.

The amount of land covered by Walmart stores around the world is more than the area of Lithuania.

Boehm’s Bush Squirrel from central Africa can smell water up to a mile away.

May 2069 will see a lunar eclipse that will produce the largest tides for over a thousand years – and will probably cause over 3 million people to be flooded out of their homes.

Venetian blinds were outlawed in large parts of Italy during the 19th century as other cities felt they had political undertones.

The modern recognised mathematical symbols (+, x etc) wasn’t universally accepted until an international conference in Denver in 2001.