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Ostriches don't bury their heads in sand. Hawaii was originally called the Sandwich Islands. The expression to 'knuckle down' originated from playing marbles (players used to put their knuckles to the ground for their best shots). Your small intestine is the largest internal organ in your body. The oldest cockroach fossils are over 280 million years old. Forty is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order. The Nobel Peace Prize is named for Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again. Instant mashed potatoes (dehydrated potato flakes) were invented in Canadian in 1962. If you add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 consecutively (1 + 2 + 3...) it totals 5050. reload more facts