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In Nevada it is illegal to ride a camel on the highway.

It has been suggested that shepherds are responsible for inventing the game golf. It is said that they used to use their staffs to hit the stones

Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards

The only sound Seahorses make is a small clicking or popping sound during feeding or courtship

A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

People with allergies can lower allergy reactions by laughing

The Dutch acquired Surinam in exchange for Manhattan Island in 1667.

It is illegal for a man to kiss a woman while she is asleep in Logan County, Colorado.

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'.

In Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) does not blink in any scene.

Each day the sun causes about one trillion tons of water to evaporate

Montreal is the second largest French speaking city after Paris

I am. is the second shortest complete sentence in the English language

A gelotologist is a person who studies laughter

Over the last 50 years in the United States, approximately 9,000 people have died as a result of tornadoes, 5,000 as the result of floods, and 4,000 as the result of hurricanes.

Walter Huston and his son John become the first father-and-son team to win Oscars as director of and an actor in Treasure of Sierra Madre in 1949.

The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins.

Male sea horses are the ones that get impregnated rather than the females. Males have a pouch on their belly that provides incubation for the female?s eggs and they can have up to 1500 babies at one time

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