THE BEAGLE BRIGADE, USED IN 21 INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS IN THE U.S., KEEPS A YEARLY AVERAGE OF 75,000 ILLEGAL ITEMS OUT OF THE COUNTRY.
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When a US Navy ship returns from deployment the first sailors allowed off the ship are sailors whose wives gave birth while they were away.
Bittersweet chocolate is what is usually called for in baking. It contains more chocolate liquor (at least 35%) and less sugar than sweet chocolate. Semisweet chocolate contains 15% - 35% chocolate liquor.....
Chickens have a great memory. They can distinguish between over 100 different faces of people or animals.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.............
Sammy the seal was always begging for food at a County Wicklow, Ireland restaurant, so the staff started feeding him daily at 9am, 1pm, and 4pm. Now he flops out of the water, looks both ways, crosses the road, and awaits his prize at those exact times every day. He is never late.
Aztec emperor Montezuma drank 50 golden goblets of hot chocolate every day. It was thick, dyed red and flavored with chili peppers....
The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle, is the Picayune Intellegence..........
Stephen King's first book was "Carrie". He threw the first pages away when he became discouraged and didn't like the story of a teen-aged girl with psychic powers. His wife found them in the trash can, retrieved them and encouraged him to continue writing the book. It was published in 1973.
In the early drafts of "Frozen," snow queen Elsa was a scripted as a villain who wore a coat of weasels, but the movie producers reworked the character and made her sympathetic and warm-hearted.
It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point............
In the Atacama Desert in Chile, there’s a 3,000-year-old, densely packed shrub called llareta. It looks like moss covering rocks, but it's actually a cluster of branches and leaves that is so hard you can stand on it.
A 108-year-old postcard offering a shilling in exchange for its return to an English marine research institute is now officially the world’s oldest message in a bottle after being recovered in Germany.
It was discovered by retired German postal worker Marianne Winkler while on holiday on Germany’s North Frisian islands, 108 years and 138 days after it was thrown into the North Sea off the English coast by distinguished marine biologist George Parker Bidder on November 30, 1906.
It was discovered by retired German postal worker Marianne Winkler while on holiday on Germany’s North Frisian islands, 108 years and 138 days after it was thrown into the North Sea off the English coast by distinguished marine biologist George Parker Bidder on November 30, 1906.
Jennifer Lawrence revealed in a magazine interview that she went deaf in one ear during the shooting of "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" because of ear infections that resulted from diving and because water jets from a scene punctured her eardrum.
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