Do You Know That Is.......

• The top layer of a wedding cake, known as the groom's cake, traditionally is a fruit cake. That way it will save until the first anniversery.
• The German Kaiser Wilhelm II had a withered arm and often hid the fact by posing with his hand resting on a sword, or by holding gloves.
• The forward pass was created by the football team at Saint Louis University.
• In every show that Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt (The Fantasticks) wrote, there is at least one song about rain.
• A kind of tortoise in the Galapagos Islands has an upturned shell at its neck so it can reach its head up to eat cactus branches.
• The only city whose name can be spelled completely with vowels is Aiea, Hawaii, located approximately twelve miles west of Honolulu.
• Parthenogenesis is the term used to describe the process by which certain animals are able to reproduce themselves in successive female generations without intervention of a male of the species. At least one species of lizard is known to do so.
• Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
• The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat", which means "the king is dead".
• The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the actual queen.
• "Quisling" is the only word in the English language to start with "quis."
• All of the cobble stones that used to line the streets in New York were originally weighting stones put in the hulls of Belgian ships to keep an even keel.
• Nepal is the only country without a rectangular flag (it looks like two pennants glued on on top of the other)
• Libya has the only flag which is all one color with no writing or decoration on it
• The only borough of New York City that isn't an island (or part of an island) is the Bronx.
• The 1957 Milwaukee Braves were the first baseball team to win the World Series after being relocated.
• The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."