You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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The station master and operating officer at the Kishi Station, Japan, is a cat!
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During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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In Turkish, the bird we call a Turkey is called "Hindi" ("from India"). In India, it's called "Peru." In Arabic, the bird is called "Greek chicken"; in Greek it's called "French chicken"; and in French it's called "Indian chicken." The bird is indigenous to none of these places.
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