- The Colgate toothpaste company started out making starch, soap, and candles.
- Miami installed the first ATM for inline skaters.
- Aichmophobia is the fear of needles and pointed objects.
- There are only 4 words in the English language which end in 'dous' (they are: hazardous, horrendous, stupendous and tremendous).
- Mistletoe is evergreen -even after a tree's leaves have fallen, it stays green.
- The bigger the orange the sweeter sweeter it is.
- A pelican can hold more food in its beak than its belly.
- If you add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 consecutively (1 + 2 + 3...) it totals 5050.
- An avocado is actually a large berry.
- Siderodromophobia is the fear of trains.
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