1. There are more tigers in Americans' backyards than in the wild. There are only 3,900 tigers in the wild . . . and more than 5,000 being kept as exotic pets.
2. The name for a group of ferrets is a "business."
3. Wasabi was originally eaten with sushi to kill bacteria, not for its flavor. That's not necessary now with modern sanitary conditions . . . but people still eat it out of habit.
4. The projectile vomit in "The Exorcist" was from a famous California restaurant called Pea Soup Andersen's. Their soup looked more like vomit on camera than Campbell's.
5. The Boston Tea Party in 1773 destroyed 92,000 pounds of tea, which would be worth about $1.7 million in today's money.
