The Ginkgo Tree, Ginkgo Biloba is a living fossil. It was widespread as a fossil but resurfaced in China. It is thought there is no natural population of this species and all of the planting today are descendants of trees cultivated by Chinese Monks
The first artist to release a song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards was the UK singer George Bean who recorded the track ‘Will You Be My Lover Tonight’ in 1964, (before The Stones had released any singles).
Lennon and McCartney wrote From A Window for Peter and Gordon, Peter being the brother of Paul's girlfriend, Jane.
In 1990, The Stone Roses were each fined £3,000 after being found guilty of criminal damage at their former record companies offices.
In 1985, A-Ha went to No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Take On Me’, making them the first Norwegian group to score a US No.1.
The double entendre title of the Bellamy Brother’s 1979 hit ‘If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me’ was derived from a quote by Groucho Marx.
As a Marx Brothers fan, I knew that one! Alaska is the only state whose name can be typed using only one line on your keyboard.
Locals claim the only two things stranger than themselves in the state of Maine, are the Sasquatch and Stephen King.
Love King Wanted to attend the University of Maine at Orinoco to take his creative writing class but it was full. The only word in the English language ending in MT is DREAMT.
There used to be a rivet dead center in the first blue jeans ( Levi Straus) in the crotch, but it was removed when cowboys kept being burned while squatting by their campfires