Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been over mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customer wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
J.S.Bach had 20 children, 7 with his first wife and 13 with his second.
Jacques Cousteau invented scuba gear while in the French resistance during World War II
James Buchanan was the only unmarried president of the US
James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.
Jaw muscles can provide about 200 pounds of force to being the back teeth together for chewing.
Jean Claude Van Damme was the alien in the original Predator in almost all the jumping and climbing scenes.
Jet lag was once called boat lag, beck before jets existed.
Jimmy Carter is a speed reader (2000 wpm).
Jimmy Carter was the first US president to have been born in a hospital.
John Cage composed 'Imaginary Landscaper No.4', which was scored for twelve radios tuned at random.
John has a long moustache was the coded signal used by the French Resistance in WWII
John Larroquette of Night Court And the John Larroquette Show was the narrator of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and was found in a warehouse. Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and was found in a theatre.
John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
Judy Jetson is a Libra.
June Foray, the voice of Talking Tina from the classic Twilight Zone episode Living Doll, was also the voice of Rocky the talking squirrel from Rocky & Bullwinkle.
Just twenty seconds' worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
Kathleen Turner was the voice of Jessica Rabbit, and Amy Irving was her singing voice.
Kemo Sabe, the name Tonto called The Lone Ranger means Soggy Shrub in Navajo Indian.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
Killer whales have such a good sense of touch that if you dropped a pill into a bucket and feed it to the orca it would eat the fish and spit out the pill.
King Kong in the only movie to have its sequel (Son of Kong) relaced the same year (1933)
Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
Knitted socks discovered in Ancient Egyptian tombs have been dated back as far as the 3rd century AD.
Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI
Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill 'if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee'. His reply 'if you were my wife, I would drink it'
Larry Lewis ran the 100 yard dash in 17.9 seconds in 1969, there by setting a new world's record for runners in the 100 years or older class. He was 101.
Lawsuits riled be California inmates cost the taxpayers more than 25 million in 1994.
Lee Harvey Oswals's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992
Lemon sharks grow a new set of teeth every two weeks! They grow more than 24,000 new teeth every year!
Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one had and draw with the other at the same time.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors, played the viola, and spent twelve years painting the Mona Lisa's lips.
Less than 1% of the Caribbean Islands are inhabited.
Less than 7% of the population donates blood.
Less than 2% of the water on Earth is fresh.
Li is the family name for over 87 million People in China.
Lightning strikes the earth about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
Liquid paper was invented by Mike Nesmith's (of the Monkees) mother, Bette Nesmith Graham, in 1951.
Lobsters have blue blood.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of Lorne Green's Wild Kingdom.
Los Angeles's full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, LA
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