Did you know?

[Bighuey]

The chainsaw was originally invented for surgeons to cut through bone.

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Most elephants weigh less than a blue whale's tongue.

[Bighuey]

The word lady is an old Saxon word meaning loaf giver.

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A single banana is call a finger and if you eat the whole bunch (like Weird Al recommended) you would actually be eating a hand of bananas!

[Bighuey]

WD-40 is made from fish guts. Also WD means water displacement and 40 is the number of times they made it until they got it right.

[onebrickshy]

The first recorded case of the "bends" happened, not in a nautical setting, but
among "sand hogs" building the Brooklyn Bridge in 1851.

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Nice girls do what their mother's tell them to do.
Good girls do what their boyfriends tell them to do.
Good girls are lots more popular.

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Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death.

[Bighuey]

Tex Williams is from Illinois
T. Texas Tyler is from Arkansas
Tex Morton is from New Zealand
Montana Slim is from Canada
The California Ramblers, a popular jazz group from the 1920's are from Ohio.
The Harlem Hamfats are from Detroit.

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That was a very cool list! Thanks for taking the time to put that group together!

The streets of Victor, Colorado are paved with low-grade gold. It used to be a "gold rush" town.

[Gravy]

The duck billled platypus is the only venomous mammel

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And a very cool secret agent too! A-Gent P!

[Bighuey]

That was a very cool list! Thanks for taking the time to put that group together!

Those guys must not have liked their home areas much. Or maybe those states sell more records. I did find that Tex Ritter is from Texas.

Billy The Kid was documented to have only killed two men.

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At least somebody liked where he was from apparently!

Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream.

[Bighuey]

Marlboro cigarettes were originally marketed for women.

Ketchup ice cream? Might be good. I had oatmeal ice cream once, it was quite good.

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A flea can jump 350 times the length of its body. That is equivalent to a human jumping the length of a football field. But I am sure they need to get a running start first.