There are more chickens than people in the world.
Tigers have stripped skin, not just stripped fur.
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Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
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When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
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Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
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It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month" or what we know today as the "honeymoon."
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In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet. (developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications)
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The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
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The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old
English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
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Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
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It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
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The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
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The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
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Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
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On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
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In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
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Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into veiw. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.
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Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
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The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die'. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.
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Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
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The pet ferret (Mustela putorias furo) was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.
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Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
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Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
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Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt were all cousins. (FDR and Eleanor were about five times removed.)
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In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it's smiling.)
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Several buildings in Manhattan have their own zip code! The World Trade Center has several.
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