THE ENVELOPE, PLEASE

The confidential envelope was first introduced as a part of The Oscars ceremony in 1941. That was the year that “How Green Was My Valley” beat out “Citizen Kane” and “The Maltese Falcon” for Best Picture.

The elephant is the only animal with four knees.

The British Film Institute reports that more films were created in that country in 1936 — 192 in all — than in any other year.

At least two films used chocolate to simulate blood: “Night of the Living Dead” and “Psycho.”

To make the unique roar for giant film ape “King Kong,” sound experts blended the recorded roars of a lion and a tiger and then ran the recording backwards.

The Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center reports that the average tree in a metropolitan area survives for only about eight years.

An acre of trees gives off about 4,280 pounds of oxygen each year.

Although the exact total is unknown, Canada has at least 31,752 inland waters and lakes, more than any other country in the world.

Bernard Lavery holds the world record for growing history’s heaviest cabbage. The vegetable weighed 124 pounds when it was harvested in 1989.

Olive trees have a life expectancy of about 500 years.