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TRIVIA
Call L.A. by it's real name: El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles sobre
el Rio de la Porciuncula. I'll bet that even then while under spanish
rule it was abbreviated. Call it a hunch...
Snails are hermaphrodites. SheMale Snails.
The deepest part of the oceans in 16.5 miles deep, or over 87,000 feet!
Mickey Mouse was originally to be names Mortimer Mouse. Mickey sure
sounds better!
A mule is the child of a horse and a donkey. Mules are almose always
sterile, and thus rarely have baby mules.
The world's largest suit of armor was made for...you guessed it...an
elephant! (or did you?)
Plato was convinced that love was a "grave mental disease."
There are about 8,000 different varieties of apples.
Beverly Hills was a lima bean/sheep farm before it became the home of
the "rich and snotty."
Computer Crime adds up to more than 10 billion dollars per year.
Henry David Thoreau, the author of "Walden" was also a
pencil-maker.
On an island in northern Wales there's a village called
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllandysiliogogogoch.
(Just pronounce it as it's spelled.)
Historically, only Hawaiian men danced the Hula. But in those
bikini tops and grass skirts they just didn't have the same
tourist draw as the women.
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