When the Super Bowl champion Giants visited the White House in 1987, they dumped popcorn on President Reagan.
The Nobel Committee declined to award the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948 because "there was no suitable living candidate." This was meant as tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, who was assassinated earlier that year without receiving the Prize.
The Netherlands has the tallest population.
At the Wife Carrying World Championships in Finland, first prize is the wife's weight in beer.