Little Tid-Bits of Superfluous Information
The Tyrannosaurus Rex, full grown could be 47 feet long.

Scientists didn't know positively that dinosaurs laid eggs until 1978 when John K. Horner first discovered dinosaur nests in the Western part of Montana.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited, imagination encircles the world."
~Albert Einstein~

Quito in Ecuador, South America, is said to have the most pleasant climate in the world. It is called the 'Land of Eternal Spring.' The temperate rarely drops below 46 degrees Fahrenheit during the night, or exceed 72 degrees Fahrenheit during the day.

Tornadoes seem to be an almost-exclusive North American phenomena  they occur more often in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world.

Salt Lake City, Utah, gets an average of 17 inches more snow annually than Fairbanks, Alaska. Santa Fe, New Mexico, gets an average of 9 inches more snow each year than New Haven, Connecticut. When viewed from above, Rainbows are donut shaped.

In 1798, a mirage of the French coast was seen from Hastings, a town in Southern England, 60 miles away. A hundred-mile stretch of the French coast from Calais to Dieppe was seen clearly for three hours.

Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit. This is the only temperature for which the readings on both scales are equal.

The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards

100,000 cubic feet of water pours over the Niagra Falls every second.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time. It is 1/100 of a second.