Trivial Tidbits

The highest apartment residence is the 92nd floor of the 100-story John Hancock Building in Chicago.

The Seasame Street characters Bert and Ernie were named after characters in the film "It's A Wonderful Life."

The odds against a bridge player getting all 13 cards in the same suit in one deal are about 158,753,389,899 to one.

The artificial sweetener Sweet n Low first appeared on the market in 1958.

The first continously operating laser was produced in the USA in 1961.

Food was first served on a commercial airplane in 1919.

About 56,000 Americans are over 100 years old.

Johnny Appleseed (whose real name was Jonathan Chapman) was an American pioneer who planted apple trees along the frontier in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.