Can of Corn in baseball lexicon comes from grocery store workers who would use a stick to knock cans off the top shelf and catch them.

One rotation of the earth on it's axis is 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4.1 seconds.

The length of a day on earth gets longer by about 2.3 miliseconds per century.

Lebanon is the geographic center of Kentucky

 

LaCenter in Ballard County is so named because a geographer in the early 1900s called it the geographic center of Earth. The guy must have been French.

To buy something lock, stock and barrel...refers to the muzzle loading rifle that it was the complete rifle.

The term flash in pan comes from the flintlock rifle in which the priming powder in the pan of the flintlock ignites (flashes), but the gun does not fire.

The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.

 

The average human produces about 10,000 gallons of saliva in their lifetimes (not sure if baseball players are average).

 

Adolph Hitler was voted Time Magazine's 1938 Man of the Year.

Back to Square One originates from a BBC radio broadcaster in the 1920s who used numeric squares to better describe where the ball was on the field (or pitch). As the ball advanced, he would say it was in a certian numbered square. Square one was to one side of either goal.

On the average, the human brain weighs about ten percent more in men than it does in women.