Microsoft's Bill Gates, launched his business career in 1969, at age 14 by forming a company named Lakeside Programming Group. Gates and his friend Paul Allen signed an agreement with Computer Center Corporation to report bugs in PDP-10 software, in exchange for computer time.

RKO stands for Radio-Keith-Orpheum, formed by the merger of RCA and the Keith-Orpheum theater chain in 1921.

The blue whale weighs as much as thirty elephants, and is as long as three Greyhound buses.

A space vehicle must move at a rate of at least 7 miles per second to escape Earth's gravitational pull. This is equivalent to going from New York to Philadelphia in about 20 seconds.

In 1981, M&M's became an official food on board space shuttle flights. M&M's are now on permanent display at the space food exhibit at the NASA Museum in Washington, DC.

In the state of Queensland, Australia, it is still constitutional law that all pubs (hotel/bar) must have a railing outside for patrons to tie up their horse.

Laptop computers get bumped around too much, which makes them around 30 percent more likely to fail than a computer that stays in one place.

Only about 20 percent of diamonds are made into jewels. Because they are so hard, most diamonds are used to make tools such as dental drills and metal cutters.

The beautiful Eilean Donan Castle is situated in Loch Duich near Dornie on the west coast of Scotland near the Isle of Skye. It is the one of the most photographed castles in Scotland, and has been in a number of films, including Highlander (1984) and the nineteenth James Bond film The World Is

It is believed that 90 percent of all scientists who have ever lived are alive now, and that as many scientific paper have been published in the years since 1950 as were published in all the centuries before 1950.

The average-size hot tub or spa -- about 4 by 5 feet -- holds about 475 gallons of water.

In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more that a hundred years before either moon was discovered.

Napoleon Bonaparte was always depicted with his hand inside his jacket because he suffered from "chronic nervous itching" and often scratched his stomach sores until they bled.

The spaceship in the sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) was 25 feet high and was built on a studio backlot. It had to show no visible openings or hatches, yet had to open at certain times. The film's art directors incorporated an invisible split in its sides that was sealed over with soft plastic and coated with silver paint. ...Read more

The first law to protect the cheese industry was enacted in 1411, when Charles VI gave the people of Roquefort “the monopoly of curing cheese as has been done in the caves of Roquefort village since time immemorial.”

Juneteenth, celebrated on June 19, is the name given to emancipation day by African Americans in Texas. On that day in 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger read General Order #3 to the people of Galveston, which began as follows: "The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States...Read more

Yesterday we had some basic bits of soccer trivia and facts. How much did you know? Well, here are so more soccer facts to test your knowledge:

- In the largest soccer tournament ever, no less than 5,098 teams competed in 1999 for the second Bangkok League Seven-a-Side Competition. Over 35,000 players involved!

- The most goals scored by one ...Read more

Bombyx mori, a silkworm moth, has been cultivated for so long that it can no longer exist without human care. Because it has been domesticated, it has lost the ability to fly.

Absolutely; Kentucky Fried Chicken's popularity can be traced back to a highly successful marketing campaign that began nearly 40 years ago. Foreigners came to eat at KFC because they couldn't find chicken anywhere else. A KFC employee saw an opportunity to cash in, and the company launched its first Christmas meal in 1974. Soon the tradition ...Read more

The Statue of Liberty's index finger is 8 feet long, and it displays a fingernail measuring 13 by 10 inches.