1. “Pull yourself up by your bootstraps” was originally meant sarcastically, or to suggest an impossible accomplishment, because it’s impossible for someone to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
2. There are nine states with more cows than people: South Dakota . . . Nebraska . . . North Dakota . . . Wyoming . . . Kansas . . . Montana . . . Idaho . . . Oklahoma . . . and Iowa.
3. Sprint’s name was originally an acronym for Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Networking Telecommunications.
4. Chumbawamba holds the world record for longest album title. They released an album in 2008 that has a title that’s 865 characters long. But it’s usually just referred to by the five words at the beginning: “The Boy Bands Have Won”.
5. “Beauty and the Beast” was the first animated movie to get an Oscar nomination for Best Picture when it got one in 1992. “Up” was the second animated movie to get nominated, in 2009 . . . and “Toy Story 3” was the third and last in 2010.
