Mr. Potato Head was invented by George Lerner in the late 1940’s. It was the first toy to be advertised on network television, and in 1952, its first year of production, it made over $4 million. A plastic body was added to the kit in 1964, eliminating the need of real potatoes and other fruits and vegetables. Changes continued to occur in the toy over the next couple of decades. One of these changes included the elimination of one part – a pipe – in 1987. Elimination of the pipe was due to the growing concern about smoking among young people. http://www.loti.com/fifties_toys/Childhood_Fun_with_Mr_Potato_Head.htm
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie
Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
