• The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
  • The kiss that is given by the bride to the groom at the end of the wedding ceremony originates from the earliest times when the couple would actually make love for the first time under the eyes of half the village!
  • The kissing under the missletoe tradition originated from the Druids.
  • The kiwi has nostrils near the tip of its bill that allows it to sniff the ground for food.
  • The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly. It lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind, and lays only one egg each year. Despite this, it has survived for more than 70 million years.
  • The Kwoma of New Guinea consider it proper for the girl to make sexual advances rather than the boy in order to help the men avoid upsetting the girl's parents.
  • The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a dollar is $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies cannot be divided into a dollar).
  • The largest animal ever seen alive was a 113.5 foot, 170-ton female blue whale.
  • The largest antique ever sold is the London Bridge. It was sold and moved Lake Havasu City, AZ in 1971.
  • The largest baseball card collection, 200,000 cards, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
  • The internet is NOT FREE, a group of companies actually own the internet.
  • The Jazz Singer, 1927, was the first movie with audible dialogue.
  • The Jordanian city Amman was once called Philadelphia.
  • The Kama Sutra was written by Mallanga Vatsyayana, who was rumored to be celibate.
  • The kangaroo and the emu are shown supporting the shield on Australia's coat of arms.
  • The kangaroo rat can cover ground at a rate of 17 feet per second. It can leap as much as 18 inches straight up and can switch directions at the peak of its jump.
  • The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
  • The hummingbird is the only bird that can hover and fly straight up, down, or backward!
  • The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.
  • The Hundred Year War actually lasted 116 years (1337 to 1453).
  • The ice cream soda was invented in 1874 by Robert Green. He was serving a mixture of syrup, sweet cream and carbonated water at a celebration in Philadelphia. He ran out of cream and substituted ice cream.
  • The idiom "pillar of salt" means to have a stroke, or to become paralyzed and dead.
  • The Iditarod Dogsled Race got its name from Iditarod, a small mining village along the race's route. The race commemorates an emergency operation in 1925 to get medical supplies to Nome, Alaska following a diphtheria epidemic.
  • The Imperial torte, a square chocolate cake with five thin layers of almond paste, was created by a master pastry chef at the court of Emperor Franz Joseph (1830 1916).
  • The infamous "Red Baron" was German World War I pilot Manfred von Richthofen.
  • The infinite sign is called a lemniscate.
  • The International Space Station weighs about 500 tons and is the same size as a football field.