There Was More to Comedy Legend Don Knotts Than Anyone Ever Knew

The More You Know

• The television was invented only two years after the invention of sliced bread.
• Google's founders were willing to sell to Excite for less than $1 million in 1999, but Excite turned them down.
• 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.
• A single lightning bolt has enough energy to toast 100,000 slices of bread.