• Toni Morrison won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her novel “Beloved”, which Opra Winfrey made into a movie in 1998.

• K stands for the element potassium on the periodic scale.

• Polar Bears have black skin.

• A V8 engine is shaped like a “V” and has eight cylinders.

• The U.S. Air Force was a corps of only 50 soldiers when World War I broke out.

• J. Paul Getty earned infamy for noting: “A billion dollars isn’t worth what it used to be”.

• Mikail Gorbachev was the last president of the Soviet Union.

• Sacramento was the last California city that the last Pony Express rode end in.

• Abraham Lincoln had a five-dollar bill from the Confederate States of America found in his pocket after he was shot.

• Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to adopt the informal version of his first name.