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Bob Hope and Billy Joel were both once boxers.

James Madison, the fourth President of the United States, stood only five feet four inches tall and weighed less than one hundred pounds.

The sea contains about 1/2 of the world's known animal groups.

Studies indicate that listening to music is good for digestion

Larger Stingrays have the power to drive their stingers or tail-spines through the hulls of wooden boats.

In 1865, the U.S. Secret Service was first established for the specific purpose to combat the counterfeiting of money

Amelia Earhart designed the first lightweight luggage for air travel.

In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

Every year approximately 3,000 people choke to death

The General Lee cars used in the popular show The Dukes of Hazards were 1969 Dodge Chargers

Sugar Bear (the mascot for Golden Crisps cereal) was born in 1963

In Britain, failed suicides were hanged in the 19th century.

The world's first speed limit regulation was in England in 1903. It was 20 mph.

Ninety-nine percent of pumpkins sold in the United States are for the sole purpose of decoration.

When a toad is sick, it vomits up its own stomach, which hangs out of its mouth for a short time before it swallows it back down.

The five most frequently used letters in the English alphabet are, in order, E T A I S.

Armadillos can be house broken.

New York City has 570 miles of shoreline.

Roughly 44% of junk mail is thrown away unopened

In humans, the epidermal layer of skin, which consists of many layers of skin regenerates every 27 days

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