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3961/ Eating raw onions is good
for unblocking a stuffed nose.
3962/ Onions get their distinctive
smell by soaking up sulphur from the soil.
3963/ Beijing boasts the world's
largest Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant.
3964/ In cooking, six drops make
a dash.
3965/ It takes more than 500
peanuts to make one 12 ounce jar of peanut butter.
3966/ Japan is the largest exporter
of frog's legs.
3967/ The word constipation comes
from a Latin word that means 'to crowd together'.
3968/ The term potty comes from
the pint-sized chamber pot built for children.
3969/ The word curfew originates
from an old French word that means 'cover fire'.
3970/ Sheep's milk is used to
produce Roquefort cheese.
3971/ Glass flutes do not expand
with hunidity so their owners are spared the nuisance of tuning
them.
3972/ The names of the two stone
lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience
and Fortitude. They were named by the then Mayor Fiorello
LaGuardia.
3973/ A wedding ring is generally
exempt by law from inclusion among the assets in a bankruptcy
estate. That means that a wedding ring can't be seized by
creditors, no matter how much the bankrupt person owes.
3974/ Only 26 States are listed
across the top of the Lincoln Memerial on the back of the
American $5 bill. Find out why here
3975/ All hospitals in Singapore
use Pampers nappies.
3976/ Liberace Museum has a mirror-plated
Rolls Royce, jewel-encrusted capes and the largest rhinestone
in the world, weighing 59 pounds and measuring almost a foot
in diameter.
3977/ Maine is the toothpick
capital of the world.
3978/ The world record for carrying
a milk bottle on your head is 24 miles.
3979/ Women shoplift more than
men. The statistics are four to one.
3980/ All snow crystals are hexagonal.
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