• Some of the more colorful collective nouns are an ostentation of crows, a murder of peacocks, and a crash of octopuses.

• According to a professor at the University of Oxford, documents from the time show that Robin Hood gave away more than 99 percent of his gains to the poor.

• Neptune is the only planet with four magnetic poles.

• Nearly 75 percent of Americans misspell "hamster" as "hampster", but only 50 percent mispronounce it that way.

• Cigarette butts account for fourths-fifths of roadside litter by weight.