Trivial Fact
Koalas and humans are the only animals with unique prints. Koala prints cannot
be distinguished from human fingerprints.
The first recording to sell a million copies was
Carry Me Back To Old Virginny
performed by Alma Glick.
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Kids Write the Darndest Things
Mark Twain once said that the "most interesting information comes from
children, for they tell all they know and then stop."
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Julius Caesar was renowned for his great strength. He threw a bridge across
the Rhine. His dying words were "And you too - you brute!"
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Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak.
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In the Middle Ages knights fought on horses. This was called jesting.
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Henry VIII by his own efforts increased the population of England by 40,000.
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The death of Queen Elizabeth I ended an error.
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John Paul Jones became one of America's great nasal heroes.
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The difference between a president and a king is a king has no vice.
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The system of checks and balances means that you have to keep a balance in
the bank to write checks.
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Under President Adams there was the Alien and Sedation Act.
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The process of putting a president on trial is known as impalement.
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During his term of office, Woodrow Wilson had many foreign affairs.
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During the first twenty years of the century there was much suffrage from
women.
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The leader of the Bolsheviks was John Lennon.
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In Hitler's Germany a huge anti-semantic movement arose.
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The two kinds of books printed are friction and non-friction.
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Poetry is when every line starts with a capital letter and doesn't reach the
right side of the page.
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My favorite myth was Jason and the Huguenots.
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Romeo and Juliet tell each other how much they are in love in the baloney
scene.
From
More Anguished English
by Richard Lederer
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