12 Sacks of Trivia Splitting at the Seams With Knowledge

Before 1984, there was no “PG-13” rating. Movies jumped straight from PG to R with nothing in between. The first movie to ever receive a PG-13 rating was Red Dawn.

Your mental image of Oscar the Grouch is probably green, but he wasn’t always. The original Oscar was orange.

Though versions exist across the military now, the Medal of Honor originated with the U.S. Navy.

The three-point seatbelt was invented by Nils Bohlin at Volvo in 1959. In a lasting good-guy move, they released the patent for free in the name of safety.

In Hawaii, if a woman is wearing a flower behind her right ear, it means she's single. The opposite ear means she’s in a relationship.

It’s “bookkeeper,” or variants like “bookkeeping.”

The Inglorious Basterds weren’t the only people who attempted to explode Hitler. German officer Claus von Stauffenberg attempted to assassinate the big bad with an explosive placed in a briefcase under a table at a meeting, but it failed.

If you’re wondering what a baby kangaroo eats, Winnie the Pooh can’t help you. The joey Roo from the stories regularly eats watercress sandwiches.

The only organ that was customarily left inside a mummy-to-be was the heart, because it was considered the, well, heart of someone’s being and mind.

The now antiquated fax machine gets its name from “facsimile.”

The first ever three-point shot in the NBA was made by Chris Ford on October 12, 1979. It was also the NBA debut of a lanky white boy named Larry Bird.

It was Uruguay, who defeated Argentina in the finals in 1930.