I'll take this a step further, while lacking a technical name the "blast beat" was first used in jazz music.

Salford kiss. :p:

While the word origins are uncertain, interestingly the adjective "Welsh" goes back (at least) 1000 years to the Anglo-Saxon root wælisc, and literally meant "foreigner" or "stranger".

Britons were in fact the Welsh and Anglo Saxons are of course the English.
So it follows that to the English gave the Welsh their name; Welsh=foreigner.

The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial

In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.

The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet

The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep


Just some ones that i found from a site..i know its cheating..but some of them are interesting..and i dont know anything spectacular.

French fries were actually created in Belgium

cats have 3 eye lids
and male seahorses give birth

beautiful (actresses?) Kim Novak and Jamie Lee Curtis are actually men, who were born with a very rare condition, which gives men female genitalia, and female sex organs.
Beeteedub, Kim Novak, while remaining pretty is no longer hot, since (she's?) in her 70's or 80's. Trust me, (she?) was hot. Just watch Vertigo.

The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!........lol

How did you know that?