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Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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To make one pound of whole milk cheese, 10 pounds of whole milk is needed.
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The reason why bubble gum is pink is because the inventor only had pink colouring left. Ever since then, the colour of bubble gum has been predominantly pink.
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Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste is made from recycled tin.
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The first hair dryer was a vacuum cleaner that was used for drying hair.
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In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
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An artist from Chicago named Dwight Kalb created a statue of Madonna made out of 180 pounds of ham.
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Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second? William Jefferson Clinton.
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Of all the words Dr. Seuss made up in his storybooks, only one has stuck in the English vocabulary: grinch, which is refers to a killjoy -- and it took more than 20 years.
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Police detectives have used snapping turtles to help them locate dead bodies.
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