• Fewer english speaking people can explain when to use "lay" instead of "layed" or "lain" or "laid" than can explain when to use "fewer than" instead of "less than".

• U.S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman played each other in chess via mail throughout the Civil War and wagered on the outcome. At the end of the war Sherman owed Grant $502.58, 10 chickens and an acre of land in Missouri.

• As of January 2009, there were 18 men and 27 women incarcerated for more than 19 months in various United States institutions for violating local recycling ordinances.

• As of July 2009, thirty-eight percent of American-based web pages were proofread by people outside the United States.

• Ice cream shops along the New Jersey shore sell more ice cream than any other group of ice cream shops.