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The only city whose name can be spelled completely with vowels is Aiea, Hawaii.
 
The General Sherman Tree in Sequoia National Park east of Visalia, California, is the largest tree in the world (by volume).

PETA once asked the Pet Shop Boys to consider changing their name to Rescue Shelter Boys.
 
Surgeon scrubs are green to counteract eye stress from all the red blood (opposite colors).
 
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Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, once sworn political enemies (though after retirement they became quite friendly), both died on July 4th, 1826 (America's 50th anniversary).
 
While World War II was being fought, the original copies of the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were taken from the Library of Congress and kept at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
 
In the 1950s, Harper Lee moved to New York to become an author. Her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won a Pulitzer Prize, but aside from a few nonfiction magazine articles she's published since, she’s refused to write anything else—including a foreword for her lone novel.
 
The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
 
Food chemist William A. Mitchell helped invent Tang, Cool Whip, and Pop Rocks.
 
The phrase "willy-nilly" derives from Anglo Saxon English, meanining, literally "Will, will-not"
 
"Aposiopesis" is the official name of the rhetorical style in which you deliberately fail to complete a sentence. ("Why you…")
 
Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hiearchical Officious Oracle." David Filo and Jerry Yang were in a trailer in Palo Alto, Calif., thinking of a name for their hobby!
 
The smallest man ever was Gul Mohammed (1957-1997) of India, who measured 1'10 inches.

The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad
 
Three men served as president of the U.S. in 1841: William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Martin Van Buren.
 
A snake charmer in Bangladesh once found 3,500 poisonous cobras and their eggs hidden underneath the floors of two suburban homes.
 
If your morning commute to work is 20 minutes or less, it's below the national average. New Yorkers have some of the longest commutes, averaging 40 minutes.
 
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
 
Mushroom clouds can be created by any huge explosion; they aren't specific to atomic blasts.
 
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