January 2012
14 posts
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Daffy Duck's middle name is "Dumas".
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Clouds cannot travel south southwest.
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Due to staggering inflation in the 1920's,...
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Blackbird, who was the chief of Omaha Indians, was...
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Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people...
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Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a...
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"Speak of the Devil" is short for "Speak of the...
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The average American will eat 19 pounds of cereal...
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The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are...
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Only female mosquito’s' bite and most are...
Upper and lower case letters are named “upper” and...
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Reseach suggests two narcissists are better than...
For many years psychologists have explored whether narcissism and creativity are linked, and some studies have suggested that the self-obsessed may, in fact, be more creative than the rest of us. But 2011 research from Cornell University argues otherwise.
Researchers then paired 292 undergrads (all of whom completed the narcissism test) into 73 four-person groups. The groups were given the...
December 2011
10 posts
In the 19th century the President of the United...
The tradition started with George Washington (though his receptions were held before the White House was built) and ended with Herbert Hoover in 1933.
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If a tiger loses all his hair, he’ll still be...
The eyes of the chameleon can move independently....
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The average human brain is 140 mm wide, 167 mm...
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Colonel Sanders’ finger-lickin’ formula is locked...
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The Duckbill Platypus is one of the few mammals to...
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Only about one-fifth of the world’s largest...
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Author F. Scott Fitzgerald’s full name was Francis...
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Walt Disney refused to allow Alfred Hitchcock to...
November 2011
3 posts
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During busy travel periods (like Thanksgiving and...
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The 9th largest city in the world is a place...
The stock phrase "and they lived happily ever...
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October 2011
10 posts
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Jack o’ Lanterns originated in Ireland where...
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The ancient Celts thought that spirits and ghosts...
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Halloween candy sales average about 2 billion...
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Chocolate candy bars top the list as the most...
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Signs of a werewolf are a unibrow, hair palms,...
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Halloween facts all day!
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The concept of “community service” as a form of...
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Horses can’t vomit.
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There have been rumors in The Lion King that when...
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Cheese is the most stolen food in the world
September 2011
2 posts
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August 2011
21 posts
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The term "riding shotgun" was applied originally...
So next time you call shot gun remember that you’ve got responsibilities
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The unkempt Shaggy of Scooby-Doo fame has a rather...
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The Shortest place name is "Å" it is located in...
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There are 425 sheets per roll of Kirkland...
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The real name of Monopoly mascot Rich Uncle...
The policeman in Monopoly has a name, too. You can thank Officer Edgar Mallory the next time he sends you to jail.
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Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts....
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You know how it smells after it rains? That clean,...
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Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than...
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Proportional to their weight, men are stronger...
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The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and...
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Whale shark skin can be up to 10 cm thick, which...