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Genetically-engineered babies were born first in 2001.

A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet.

There is about 1/4 pound of salt in every gallon of seawater.

The sound made by the toadfish when mating underwater is so loud that it can be heard by humans on the shore

The original title of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice was First Impression.

There are 40 official jelly belly flavours

Budweiser beer is named after a town in Czechoslovakia.

Until 1896, drivers in Great Britain had to warn of their presence by having a person precede their car on foot, waving a red flag.

Snails eat with a rasping mouth called a radula, which has thousands of teeth

Owl's eyes are too large to move in their eye sockets, so they've developed the ability to turn their heads round further than other birds can.

James Buchanan was the only unmarried president of the United States

The Pillsbury Bake-off has been held every year since 1948.

The standard blue U.S. Postal Service mailbox can hold approximately 4,000 letters at a time.

Finagle's Law was the one that went, Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Not Murphy's Law.

French soldiers during World War I had the nickname poilu which translates to hairy one.

When Nylons first went on sale in the United States in 1940, four million pairs were sold in only a few days

There are some hospitals in Shanghai that have issued a rule that a nurse must wear lipstick while on duty

William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) was the first US president to die in office. At 32 days, he also had the shortest term in office.

Analingus refers to oral stimulation of a person's anus.

Marlboro cigarettes sold in New York contain more tar and nicotine than those sold in all other states.

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