Kermit the Frog was named after Kermit Scott, a childhood friend of creator Jim Henson, who became a professor of philosophy at Purdue University
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The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P
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There are 691 drinking fountains in the Pentagon
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While still in college, Bill Gates and Paul Allen once built a special purpose machine called "Traff-O-Data." It was a machine that would analyze information gathered by traffic monitors. They never found any buyers.
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The titan arum flower is the largest flower in the world and gives off a horrible odor that smells like rotting flesh when it blooms
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The largest volcano known is on Mars: Olympus Mons, 370 miles wide and 79,000 feet high, is almost three times higher than Mount Everest
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Both Thomas Jefferson and Jimmy Carter, U.S. presidents, were peanut farmers at one time
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It cost the soft drink industry $100 million a year for thefts committed involving vending machines
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The second best selling game of all time is Jenga. Jenga is a Swahili word, meaning "to build."
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The sun is approximately 75% hydrogen, 25% helium by mass
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The Spring peeper (a frog) can survive the winter season with 65% of its body water as ice
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A study indicates that smokers are likely to die on average six and a half years earlier than non-smokers
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Nintendo was first establish in 1889 and they started out making special playing cards
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German cockroaches can survive for up to one month without food and two weeks without water
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The iron disulfide (Pyrite) is considered "fool's gold" because it looks very similar to gold.
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Eating parsley after eating an onion can help in getting rid of onion breath
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The Sears Tower consists of nine framed tubes, which connects nine skyscrapers as one building
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The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night
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The name "cranberry" comes from German and Dutch settlers. The berry was intially called "crane berry." The reason it was called this was because when the flowers bloom, the petals of the flowers twist backwards and look very much like the head of a crane. Eventually the name was shortened down to be "cranberry."
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