Did You Know?

Stitch is a blue, koala-like, alien genetic creation standing around 3 feet tall.

He is referred to as a dog throughout much of the franchise, and was thought in the beginning by Lilo to be a collie hit by a car, and Nani thought it was a koala of a sort before they found out he was a genetic experiment.

Only one side of the Moon is visible from Earth because the Moon rotates about its spin axis at the same rate that the Moon orbits the Earth, a situation known as synchronous rotation or tidal locking.

Human survival on Mars would require living in artificial Mars habitats with complex life-support systems. One key aspect of this would be water processing systems. 

Being made mainly of water, a human being would die in a matter of days without it.

The original type of sushi（すし, known today as narezushi (馴れ寿司, 熟, fermented sushi), was first developed in Southeast Asia and spread to south China before introduced to Japan sometime around the 8th century. 

Fish was salted and wrapped in fermented rice, a traditional lacto-fermented rice dish.

Dionysus was the ancient Greek god of wine, winemaking, grape cultivation, fertility, ritual madness, theater, and religious ecstasy. His Roman name was Bacchus. He may have been worshiped as early as 1500-11000 BCE by Mycenean Greeks.

Norville "Shaggy" Rogers is a fictional character from the American animated television series Scooby-Doo, about the adventures of four crime-solving teenagers and Shaggy's pet Great Dane, Scooby-Doo.

Like Scooby-Doo, Shaggy is more interested in eating than solving mysteries.

New York City is known by many nicknames — such as “the City that Never Sleeps” or “Gotham”- but the most popular one is probably “the Big Apple.” 

How did this nickname come about? 

• The term first became popular in the 1920s when John J. Fitz Gerald, a sports writer, started a column about horse racing called “Around the Big Apple.” However, it wasn’t so popular until a tourism campaign in the 1970s that the nickname came to be synonymous with New York City.

In 1924, Kelly's Motors in NSW, Australia, installed its first car radio.

In 1930, the Galvin Corporation introduced one of the first commercial car radios, the Motorola model 5T71, which sold for between $110 and $130 (2009: $1,700) and could be installed in most popular automobiles.

Australia is the only country that is also a continent. Australia lies between the South Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean.

The name Australia comes from the Latin word australis, meaning southern.

Alaska is the largest state in total area, land area, and water area. Despite being the second largest state, Texas is only 40% of the total area of largest state, Alaska. 

Montana is larger than every state it borders; only Alaska and Wyoming have a lower population density.