- Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew cannabis sativa (marijuana) on their plantations.
- Boules, or Petanque, is France's second most played sport.
- Brabara Cartland is the world's top-selling author with over 500 million copies sold.
- Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.
- Brimstone, referred to in the Bible and some Alchemy text, is sulphur.
- Britain's first escalator was installed in Harrods in 1878.
- Brooke Shields spent a lot of time during the filming of Blue Lagoon standing/walking in a trench beside Chris Atkins so that she wouldn't be taller than him in the scenes that they had together.
- Bruce Lee was so fast, that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves.
- Bulls can run faster uphill than they can (or want to) downhill, because of the bone structure of their legs.
- By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.
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