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• All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance
• Andrew Jackson's pet parrot had to be taken away at his funeral because it was swearing.
• Abraham Lincoln kept important documents in his hat.
• President Chester A. Arthur had more than 80 pairs of pants.

• Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age
• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
• A snail can sleep for three years
• Butterflies taste with their feet
• A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours
• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
• Bees can sense magnetism

• In the Japanese language, there is no word for privacy
• The Chinese written character for the word 'busy' is a combination of two other characters: 'killing' and 'heart'
• Half of the world lives on less than $2 a day

• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite
• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket
• A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second

• Van Gogh took his first art lesson in his late thirties
• m&m's were invented by the military so that soldiers could eat chocolate that would not melt as they carried it
• The original name for the 'Pac Man' video game was 'Puck Man'. However, the name was changed to 'Pac Man' before being released into the public because it was feared that vandals would be tempted to easily change the 'P' into an 'F'
• In its formative years, video game company Atari would hold its official business meetings in a hot tub
• There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins