After Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, plans were made to hide the Nobel Prize medals of two scientists living in the country. Instead of hiding the medals in a place where they could be found, they were instead dissolved in aqua regia (a solution composed of nitric acid and hydrochloric acids). The solution, along with the dissolved medals was stored on a shelf along with other bottles of chemicals. After the war, the gold was precipitated out of solution, and sent back to the Nobel Foundation. Max von Laue and James Franck were then issued new medals, although they were most likely not made from the original gold.

At a stride of 30 inches per step, you would have to take 2,112 steps to walk a distance of one mile.

A three minute song stored in a 128kbps MP3 file, if saved on punch cards, would require a stack of cards five feet nine inches high.

Pable Picasso's full name was "Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruiz y Picasso."

According to CNN, the largest export product from the US (based on container load) is used paper products. 20 million tons of paper products were exported from the US in 2007. About 75% of this was shipped to China, where it was recycled into packaging material for products that are then resold in the US.