* Thermometers were originally filled with brandy instead of mercury.
* The initials M & M in M & M's Candy represent the inventors' names Mars & Murrie.
* Mel Blanc, the original voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.
* Cats have the ability to produce more than 100 vocal sounds.
* A full moon is about nine times brighter than a half moon.
* A stack of $1 bills one-mile high would be worth more than $14 million dollars.
* The opening to a bear'S cave in which it hibernates is always on a north slope.
* Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
* The first hard drive for the Apple II had a capacity of 5 megabytes.
* Every person shares a birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.