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Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."

 

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Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.

 

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Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.

 

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The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5megabytes.

 

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In many cases, the amount of storage space on a record-able CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes.

 

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Charlie Brown's father was a barber.

 

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Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

 

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Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)

 

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Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.

 

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If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

 

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Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time

 

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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

 

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Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

 

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The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan.

 

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On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15.

 

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In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.

 

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Only humans and horses have hymens.

 

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The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

 

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The state with the longest coastline in the US is Alaska.

 

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We will have four consecutive full moons making two blue moons in 1999 (January 2 and 31, March 2 and 31.) The only other time it happened this century was in 1915 (January 1 and 31, March 1 and 31.)

 

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Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries.

 

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Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was played by six different cats.

 

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If you knew that there is a good chance you are gay

 

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The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California..

 

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The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th Century Fox, 1977) is 3263827.

 

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"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."

 

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A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.

 

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If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

 

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The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F

 

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Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus.