Trivia, The More You Know

Fear of Buttons

There's such a thing as a fear of buttons. Those who suffer from koumpounophobia will do their best to avoid anything and everything to do with buttons. If you suffer from this affliction, you're repulsed by buttons of every shape, size, color, and material.

The designer of the current United States flag was 17 at the time, and created it for a high school project. He received a B-.
Donkeys and dolphins are sometimes used as guard animals.
Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
Both volleyball and basketball were invented in Massachusetts.