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Mississippi is the only state that allows drivers to drink alcohol and operate a motor vehicle. As long as the driver’s blood alcohol content stays below the state’s legal limit of .08%, the open alcohol container laws do not apply in Mississippi.
Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator. It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her.
Dr. Seuss wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" after his editor dared him to write a book using fewer than 50 different words.
The world’s shortest commercially available flight takes place between the two Orkney Islands, Westray and Papa Westray, just north of Scotland, separated by a distance of only 1.7 miles. It is only 2 minutes long, and can be as short as 47 seconds in ideal conditions. The flight is operated by Loganair.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses........
Smartest dogs: 1) border collie; 2) poodle; 3) golden retriever. Dumbest dog: afghan
Dorylus, also known as driver ants, safari ants, or siafu: Such is the strength of the ant's jaws that, in East Africa, they are used as natural, emergency sutures. Various East African indigenous tribes will use the soldiers to stitch the wound by getting the ants to bite on both sides of a gash, then breaking off the body. This use of ants as makeshift surgical staples creates a seal that can hold for days at a time
Certain frogs can regurgitate their stomachs in order to clean them with their feet
Edgar Allan Poe introduced mystery fiction's first fictional detective, Auguste C. Dupin, in his 1841 story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."
Hershey's kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it is kissing the conveyor belt
Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was published March 20, 1852. It was the first American novel to sell one million copies.
No Super Bowl has ever ended in a shutout. Super Bowl VII with Miami Dolphins kicker Garo Yepremian's failed field goal attempt is perhaps the most dramatic example of a near shutout. The lowest amount of points scored in a Super Bowl is 3, put up by those same Dolphins in the previous year's Super Bowl, Super Bowl VI.
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
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