Cats urine glows under a black light.
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Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
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Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
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If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
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In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
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In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
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It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this @ home!)
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula"--and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A."
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Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
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Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
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No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
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On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
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On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
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Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
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Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
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Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
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The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
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The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
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The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."
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The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
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The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
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The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
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The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
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The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
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The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
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The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
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The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
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