Previously featured Factoid of the Week items. Older entries sink to the bottom. Last edited 19 Sept 2001. Hitler's proposed and publicly announced name for what Ferry Porsche preferred to call the Volkswagen .
Coffee is the world's most heavily traded commodity, after oil.
Even though oxygen is flowing, the plastic bag may not inflate. There are over a million auctions happening on eBay every day. World population has more than tripled this century, from an about 1.7 billion people in 1900, to an estimated 6.1 billion in 2000. I thought that guitar bands were dead. Skip the last hour of your eight hours of sleep.