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If one pound of spaghetti was layed out in one noodle it would be 300 feet long.

Original name : salim ali
Also known as : the birdman of india

The ZIP in "ZIP code" means Zoning Improvement Plan.

The number one cause of rabies in the United States are bats

The state of Tennessee was known as Franklin before 1796

First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer

The average flea can jump up to 350 times its own length. To match that a human would have to jump 1,000 feet.

In California, animals are banned from mating publicly within 1,500 feet of a tavern, school, or place of worship.

Sales of Rolaids, Alka-Seltzer, and Tums jump 20% in December "

It has been proven that feathers directly evolved from reptiles' scales. Therefore, birds came after reptiles.

There was a molasses flood in Boston on January 15, 1919 that killed 21 people and injured 150 people

Bette Midler, Barry Manilow and many other famous vocalists got their start in a New York City club called The Continental Baths.

The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the American Pie. (Thus the nameof the Don McLean song.)

The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo.

In 1998, Ten Speed Press publishing company published a book, The Eat A Bug Cookbook by David George Gordon that contains over 33 bug recipes

Radio and TV producer John Guedel was the originator of the musical commercial.

In 1879 during the term of Rutherford B. Hayes the first telephone was installed in the White House.

The U.S. bought Alaska from Russia for 2 cents an acre.

The only word in the English language to contain three back to back double letter combinations is; Bookkeeper.

In the Great Fire of London in 1666, only six people were killed

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