The General Sherman Tree in Sequoia National Park east of Visalia, California, is the largest tree in the world (by volume).
PETA once asked the Pet Shop Boys to consider changing their name to Rescue Shelter Boys.
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, once sworn political enemies (though after retirement they became quite friendly), both died on July 4th, 1826 (America's 50th anniversary).
While World War II was being fought, the original copies of the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were taken from the Library of Congress and kept at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
In the 1950s, Harper Lee moved to New York to become an author. Her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won a Pulitzer Prize, but aside from a few nonfiction magazine articles she's published since, she’s refused to write anything else—including a foreword for her lone novel.
Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hiearchical Officious Oracle." David Filo and Jerry Yang were in a trailer in Palo Alto, Calif., thinking of a name for their hobby!
If your morning commute to work is 20 minutes or less, it's below the national average. New Yorkers have some of the longest commutes, averaging 40 minutes.