• Russian president Vladimir Putin is distantly related to Pope John Paul II on his father's side.

• The most commonly ordered dish at Chinese restaurants is Beef with Broccoli.

• Although no major league baseball team has gone to the World Series after starting with an 0-6 record, the 1923 New York Giants won after having a 15 game losing streak in July of that year.

• Researchers at Apple estimate that there will be more iPods than radios in the average household by 2010.

• Richard Page of Mr. Mister fame once bet a friend that he could write a song in under 30 minutes. The resulting song, "I'll Remember", went on to be nominated for a Grammy.

• Over 90 percent of mp3 devices sold between 2005 and 2007 still have the demonstration music, video and image files on their hard drive.

• More admirals have played the US Air Force Academy's Eisenhower Golf course in Colorado Springs than generals.

• The average number of points scored in the first screen of BrickBreaker, as played on a BlackBerry 8300, is 224.502

• Texas longhorn bulls have lowest ratio of semen production to testical weight among all quadripeds.

• Any randomly-chosen spot on the island of Manhattan has a 50 percent chance of being within 246.3 yards of a jackhammer.