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Hummingbirds can't walk.
Four people played Darth Vader: David Prowse was his body, James Earl Jones did the voice, Sebastian Shaw was his face and a fourth person did the breathing.
Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
Sharon Stone was the first "Star Search" spokes model.
A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.
Barbie's full name is Barbra Millicent Roberts.
Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan. Mitsubishi built the Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
A ten-gallon hat holds three-quarters of a gallon.
It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
There are more beetles than any other kind of creature in the world.
Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Leonardo De Vinci invented the scissors.
A rhinoceros' horn is made of compacted hair.
Coffee is generally roasted between 400F and 425F. The longer it is roasted, the darker the roast. Roasting time is usually from ten to twenty minutes.
An average human drinks about 16, 000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
The annual White House Easter egg-roll was started by President Hayes in 1878.
There are 2,598,960 five-card hands possible in a 52-card deck of cards.
Americans eat more bananas than any other fruit: a total of 11 billion a year.
Cranberries are one of just 3 major fruits native to North America. Blueberries and Concord grapes are the other two.
The term "brand name" originated among American distillers, who branded their names and emblems on their kegs before shipment.
White wine gets darker as it ages while red wine gets lighter.
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