Here's just a few of the hundreds of trivia bits you'll find here in this volume: Dark Side of The Moon (a Pink Floyd album) stayed on the top 200 Billboard charts for 741 weeks! That is 14 years. Brian Setzer, of the Brian Setzer Orchestra, started out in a garage band called Merengue. "Mr. Mojo Risin" is an anagram for Jim Morrison. The horse's name in the song Jingle Bells is Bobtail. No one knows where Mozart is buried. The Beatles featured two left handed members, Paul, whom everyone saw holding his Hoffner bass left handed, and Ringo, whose left handedness is at least partially to blame for his 'original' drumming style. Tommy James was in a New York hotel looking at the Mutual of New York building's neon sign flashing repeatedly: M-O-N-Y. He suddenly got the inspiration to write his #1 hit, 'Mony Mony' Tickets for Frank Sinatra's first solo performance at the Paramount Theatre in New York City in 1942, sold for 35 cents each. Jim Morrison found the name "The Doors" for his rock band in the title of Aldous Huxley's book "The Doors of Perception", which extols the use of hallucinogenic drugs. The Granny Smith apple was used as the symbol for the Beatles' Apple Records label. Verdi wrote the opera Aida at the request of the khedive of Egypt to commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal. Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song "Happy Birthday". The Beatles played the Las Vegas Convention Center in 1964. Some 8,500 fans paid just $4 each for tickets The densest substance on Earth is the metal "osmium." The clock at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., will gain or lose only one second in 300 years because it uses cesium atoms. Vinegar was the strongest acid known in the ancient times. The leaves of the Victorian water lily are sometimes over six feet in diameter. Orchids are grown from seed so small that it would take thirty thousand to weigh as much as one grain of wheat. At last count there were about 226,000 trees in New York's Central Park. A person standing under an oak tree is 16 more times liable to be hit by lightning than if he had taken refuge beneath a beech tree. The oak tree has vertical roots which provide a more direct route to ground water. The partridge berry is a botanical Siamese twin. Each berry develops from 2 flowers. The giant sequoia, which produces millions of seeds, can take 175 to 200 years to flower. To an observer standing on Pluto, the sun would appear no brighter than Venus appears in our evening sky. Traveling at the speed of 186,000 miles per second, light take 6 hours to travel from Pluto to the earth. A brown dwarf is a very small, dark object, with a mass less than 1/10 that of the Sun. They are 'failed stars', globules of gas that have shrunk under gravity, but failed to ignite and shine as stars. A bucket filled with earth would weigh about 5 times more than the same bucket filled with the substance of the sun. However, the force of gravity is so much greater on the sun that the man weighing 150 pounds on our planet would weigh 2 tons on the sun. A car traveling at a constant speed of 60 miles per hour would take over 48 million years to reach the nearest star (other than our sun), Proxima Centauri. This is about 685,000 average human lifetimes. A cosmic year is the amount of time it takes the sun to revolve around the center of the Milky Way, about 225 million years. A day on the planet Mercury is twice as long as its year. Mercury rotates very slowly but revolves around the sun in slightly less than 88 days. A meteor at Nakhla, Egypt, killed a dog in 1911. The unlucky canine is the only creature known to have been killed by a meteor. You know the three physical dimensions, and the fourth dimension, time. For years, people have speculated about other dimensions. Experts in theoretical physics now say the major theories about the universe make sense together - and all the math seems to work - if there are 10 dimensions.