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A duck's quack doesn't echo,
and no one knows why.
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In the 1940s, the FCC assigned
television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in
taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments.
That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
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The "save" icon on Microsoft
Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
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The verb "cleave" is the only
English word with two synonyms that are antonyms of each other: adhere
and separate.
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The only 15-letter word that
can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
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Facetious and abstemious contain
all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning,
"containing arsenic."
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Emus and kangaroos cannot walk
backwards and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
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Cats have over one hundred vocal
sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine
head."
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Camel's milk does not curdle.
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In every episode of Seinfeld
there is a Superman somewhere.
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Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical
most commonly used to clean elephants.
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The United States has never
lost a war in which mules were used.
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All porcupines float in water.
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"Hang On, Snoopy" is the official
rock song of Ohio.
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Did you know that there are
coffee-flavored PEZ?
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Lorne Greene had one of his
nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's
Wild Kingdom."
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If you bring a raccoon's head
to the Henniker, New Hampshire Town Hall, you are entitled to receive
$0.10 from the town.
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The reason firehouses have circular
stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses.
The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk
up straight staircases.
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Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
- EEEEWWWW!!!!
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The airplane Buddy Holly died
in was the "American Pie" (thus the name of the Don McLean song).
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The only nation whose name begins
with an "A," but doesn't end in an "A," is Afghanistan
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Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's
Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary
of Canada's independence
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