- 'I am a Walrus', by John Lennon, was inspired by a police two tone siren.
- IBM started as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corporation.
- Iceland is the world's oldest functioning democracy.
- Icelandic phone books are listed by the given name not the surname.
- Idi Amin, one of the most ruthless tyrants in the world, before coming to power, served in the British Army.
- If 80% of the human liver was removed, it could still function and would eventually restore itself to its original size.
- If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
- If any of the heads on Mt. Rushmore had a body, it would be nearly 500 feet tall.
- If it were removed from the body, the small intestine would stretch to a length of 22 feet.
- If Monaco's ruling house of Grimaldi should ever be without an heir (male or female), the country will cease to be a sovereign state.
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