Ten Random Facts

Casey Stengel didn't retire from managing the New York Giants until he was 75 years old.
Sports » Baseball

In Pacific Grove, California, it's a misdemeanor to kill a butterfly.
Laws and Customs

Stalin led the former Soviet Union for 24 years before dying of a stroke on March 5, 1953.
History

The world is not round. It is an oblate spheroid, flattened at the poles, and bulging at the equator.
Space

In 1961, a year after the death of novelist Boris Pasternak, his friend and collaborator Olga Ivinskaya was arrested for allegedly receiving foreign royalties for Pasternak's published works. She was sentenced to eight years imprisonment and hard labor in Siberia, and her daughter received three years for alleged complicity.
History

Boris Karloff's elaborate makeup for the 1931 horror flick "Frankenstein" was copyrighted.
Entertainment » Movies

There are 250,000 species of flowering plants on Earth today.
Environment

In 1903, a stuffed toy bear was given to Teddy Roosevelt which led to the naming of “teddy” bears.
History

If a pin was heated to the same temperature as the center of the Sun, its heat would set alight everything within 60 miles of it.
Space

Blue whales can produce sounds of more than 185 decibels--nearly twice as loud as a jumbo jet at takeoff.
Animals

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