About half of the German Autobahn has no speed limit - even though there is a suggested maximum speed limit of about 80 mph (130 kph). In 1973, photo radar units were installed and the accident rate reduced 18-fold. These days, deaths on the Autobahn account for only 10% of national traffic fatalities.

Consumers also plan to spend an average of $87 each on gifts for themselves.

The first category, innovators, comprises only 2.5% of society, and they are the people who create new ideas and new products. The other categories are early adopters (13.5%), early majority (34%), late majority (34%) and laggards (16%). Laggards never fully adopt a change.

The word lemon is from an Asian language word meaning "sour" or "sour fruit".

Bobby Kempf of Roanoke, VA ate 3 lemons whole, including skin and seeds, in 15.3 seconds!

Google knows what the world is thinking. Literally.

Amazon knows what the world is buying. See what Raleigh, NC is buying. Or what books are hot in India.

If you bite a snake and it makes you sick, it's poisonous. If a snake bites you and it makes you sick, it's venomous. Hence, rattlesnakes and cobras aren't poisonous, they're venomous.

"The Fellowship of the Ring", "The Two Towers", and "The Return of the King" rank #16, #12, and #7 on the list.

Johnson & Johnson sprang into action, recalling 31 million bottles of the pain reliever nationwide at a cost of more than $100 million and launching a major PR campaign.

The FBI, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and law enforcement agencies realized that someone had methodically taken the Tylenol bottles off the shelves at the stores where they were sold, filled the capsules with cyanide and returned them back to the shelves at a later period. Within 3 months, police arrested James Lewis in connection with this crime.

It will swing by the Earth again in either 2035 or 2036, and scientists predict it has a small chance of hitting the planet on this pass.

The Rubik's World Championship includes speed-solving for the standard (3x3) Rubik's cube, but also includes more unusual events like solving the cube one-handed, with feet, or blindfolded.

Rubik's cube was introduced to the world 25 years ago.

They have a presence through almost 7,000 company and dealer stores across the US.

Several variants of this do occur in the series, such as "Beam me aboard," or "Two to beam up", but "Beam me up, Scotty" was never said during the run of the original Star Trek series.

The movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home included the closest other variation: "Scotty, beam me up."

In 1947, engineers found a moth in Panel F, Relay #70 of the Harvard Mark 1 system. The computer was running a test of its multiplier and adder when the engineers noticed something was wrong. The moth was trapped, removed and taped into the computer's logbook with the words: "first actual case of a bug being found."

However, the presence of the prefix in- has misled many people into assuming that inflammable means "not flammable" or "noncombustible." This -in is an intensive prefix derived from the Latin preposition in. This prefix also appears in the word enflame. But many people are not aware of this derivation, and for clarity's sake it is advisable to use only "flammable" to give warnings.

PBS and its member stations (348) reach nearly 90 million people each week through on-air and online content.

Kinda lonely...