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| In ancient Egypt, the bandaging of a mummy often took eight months to complete. Snails have teeth on their tongues. In San Salvador, drunk drivers can be punished by death before a firing squad. Penny Marshall was the first female film director to have a film take in more than $100 million at the box office. The movie was Big. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn down their house. Hence the expression to "get fired." The song, "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" was written by a German, George Graff, who was never in Ireland in his life. The "Wizard Of Oz" was a Broadway musical 37 years before the MGM movie. South Africa used to have two official languages. Now it has eleven. In 1848, Niagara Falls stopped flowing for 30 hours because of an ice jam blocking the Niagara River. Zip code 12345 is assigned to General Electric in Schenectady, NY. Mr Peanut was designed in 1916 by a 14-year-old boy from Suffolk Va. The boy won $5 in the contest sponsored by Planter's Peanuts. If Brooklyn became independent of New York City, it would be the third largest city in the United States, after New York and Los Angeles. The world's smallest mammal is the Bumble Bee Bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny. Pennsylvania was the first colony to legalize witchcraft. The sumatran tiger has the most stripes of all the tiger subspecies, and the Siberian tiger has the fewest. The fingerprints of a koala are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans. A nylon fiber is stronger than a steel wire of identical weight. About 100 million people in the U.S. own a cell phone. At a jet plane's speed of 620 mph, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length. St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest city in the United States, and St. Mary's, Georgia is the second. 1961 was the most recent year where the number can be read upside down or rightside up. 6009 will be the next. Iolani Plaace in Hawaii is the only royal palace on United States soil. Maine has no poisonous snakes. Paul McCartney was the first Beatle to release a solo album after the Fab Four broke up. George Harrison was the first to have a #1 hit single after the group's break-up. It was "My Sweet Lord." The combination "ough" can be pronoucned nine different ways. This sentence contains all of them.... A rough-coated, dough-faced thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed. U.S. Presidents who were survived by their fathers were, John Kennedy and Warren Harding. In Disney's "Fantasia", the sorcerer's name is Yensid, which is Disney spelled backwards. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until five years later. French was the official language of England for over 600 years. China's Beijing Duck Restaurant can seat 9,000 people at one time. A pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes. The word "corduroy" comes from the French, "cord du roi" or, "cloth of the king." In 1975, Chicago Cubs, Rick and Paul Reuschel became the first brothers to combine to pitch a shutout. If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat, it measures 87 feet long. The silhouette on the Major League Baseball logo is Harmon Killebrew. The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infrared and ultra-violet light. Great Britain was the first country to issue postage stamps. |
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