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Chuck E. Cheese’s full name is Charles Entertainment Cheese. -@JeffDLowe

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Sharks were on this planet before trees were on this planet. -@DustinGrowick

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Teddy bears were actually named after president Theodore Roosevelt. Because he refused to kill a bear during a hunting trip, most newspapers made cartoon figures of him as a bear to make fun of him. Morris Michtom saw the drawings and made a cute stuffed bear and named it Teddy. -@DonCorleANN

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"Fallopian tubes" is a mistranslation, and the correct word is tubas. Fallopio actually called them tuba uteri ("uterus trumpets") because the end resembles a brass instrument. -@vagina_museum

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John Wayne died of cancer because he played Genghis Khan in a biopic. had he not taken the role, he wouldn't have been exposed to residue at the shooting location that was downwind from a former nuclear bombing test range. -@OneRadChee

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The assassination of a federal judge referenced in 'No Country for Old Men' was real and Woody Harrelson’s dad killed him. -@BudrykZack

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Theoretically, between 1843 and 1867, a samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln. -@shockproofbeats

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The recommended serving size for a One-A-Day gummy is 2. -@Doc_Wolverine

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The 1912 Bacardi Bowl, played in Cuba, nearly ended in international incident as Florida's head coach pulled the team in the middle of the game, angry about the officiating, not realizing this was against the law. The team fled the country. -@MattBrownEP

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CS Lewis, the Christian children’s author behind the Narnia series, used to be into bondage. -@WrittenByHanna

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The day after tomorrow is called "overmorrow." -@Dictionarycom

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When Jesse Helms was first elected to the Senate, the Democrat he beat was Zach Galifianakis' uncle and the campaign hinged heavily on attacking him for being Greek. -@BudrykZack

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My Chemical Romance was started after Gerard Way saw the towers fall on 9/11. Their music inspired Stephenie Meyer to write Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey was inspired by Twilight.

9/11 is inadvertently responsible for 50 Shades. -@bjcolangelo

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Johnny Cash kept a pet ostrich on his farm. One day in 1983 the ostrich kicked him and broke Cash’s ribs, which led to a relapse of his painkiller and alcohol addiction. He went to the Betty Ford Clinic to get sober and met and befriended Ozzy Osbourne. -@pattonoswalt

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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was one of the first Americans to know that Osama bin Laden had been killed. He tweeted this out at 10:24 PM, but according to the White House transcript, Obama didn't make the announcement until 11:35 PM. -@mannyfidel

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The scientist who discovered most ulcers and some stomach cancers were caused by a bacteria infection was considered a quack for believing this so he drank infected broth, gave himself ulcers, and treated it to prove a point. -@Actually_Tina

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On Roald Dahl's deathbed he was asked what was wrong and replied "nothing I'll just miss you all so much." which would've been poetic final words but then shouted "ow f***!" after being given an injection of morphine, which were his actual last words. -@massivetransfag

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Wombats excrement are in cubes. -@DavidPriess

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I'll never get over learning that Triscuit is short for Electrical Biscuit. -@emc2birds1stone

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The Broccoli family who own the James Bond franchise are descendants of the Broccolis of Carrera, who first crossed two Italian vegetables, cauliflower and rabe, to produce the dark green, thick-stalked vegetable that would eventually take their name and make them mega-rich. -@tedgeoghegan