If you are not familiar with the notorious 60s band, The Beatles, then sit down with your parent or grandparent and let them fill you in. The Britain-based group swept the globe with hundreds of hits and accumulated millions of fans worldwide. Teens and young adults raved over the band therefore creating quite a public identity for themselves.

Here are 15 things most fans may not know about The Beatles:

1. Their initial band name was "The Silver Beatles."

2. There are over 3,000 recorded versions of Paul McCartney's song "Yesterday."

3. "A Hard Day's Night" is the only album released in the 1960s to not feature vocals from Ringo.

4. The Beatles received fifteen Ivor Novello Awards presented by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.

5. The band's concerts supposedly smelled faintly of urine due to overly excited fans, primarily girls.

6. A dentist introduced the group to LSD by secretly putting it into their coffee.

7. The Beatles officially broke up while John Lennon was at Disney World.

8. The song "Michelle" was created from Paul's favorite technique for picking up females at parties.

9. There is an ongoing international debate as to whether the "the" should be capitalized in the band name.

10. Together the band spent a record 1,278 weeks on the Billboard charts!

11. At their show in Minneapolis during August of 1965, The Beatles earned $90,000 in just 35 minutes.

12. At the end of the famous song "Strawberry Fields Forever," Lennon seems to mumble a phrase that sounds like "I buried Paul." This sparked the "Paul is dead" rumor, however, the true lyrics reveal Lennon actually said "cranberry sauce."

13. Not a single member of the band could read sheet music, they could play instruments as well as write lyrics but never learned how to read music.

14. In 2004, "Rolling Stone" named The Beatles as the best artists of all time.

15. Only two songs on the "Revolver" album are over three minutes: "Love You To" at 3.01 minutes and "I'm Only Sleeping" at 3.02 minutes.