By Annika Tomlin
It takes 570 gallons to paint the exterior of the White House.
99.9% of commercially grown artichokes come from Castroville, California.
Nisiyama Onsen Keiunkan in Japan is the oldest hotel, founded in 705 AD.
About 700 grapes go into a single bottle of wine.
Hawaiian pizza was created in Ontario, Canada, by Greek immigrant Sam Panopoulos in 1962.
Kamala Harris is the first Black, Asian American and female vice president-elect of the United States.
San Francisco allowed Officer Bob Geary to patrol with his ventriloquist dummy Brendan O’Smarty in 1993.
The largest measured snowflake was 15 inches across and 8 inches thick.
10118 is the Empire State Building’s own ZIP code.
The odds of getting a royal flush are exactly 1 in 649,740.
