Trivia For You Tuesday January 6, 2009 |
The famous Citgo sign near Fenway Park in Boston is maintained not by Citgo, but by Boston's historical society. |
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The cashew is part of a fruit called a "cashew apple" that grows in tropical regions. After harvesting, the cashew apple keeps for only 24 hours before the soft fruit deteriorates. The cashew apple is not commercially important since it spoils quickly, but local people love the fruit. To harvest the nut, the ripe apple is allowed to fall to the ground where natives easily gather it. The apple and nut are separated. |
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The first automobile to cross the United States took 52 days in 1903 to travel from San Francisco to New York. |
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In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Peking, one took revenge against one's enemies by placing finely chopped tiger whiskers in their food. The whisker barbs would get caught in the victim's digestive tract and cause sores and infections. |
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"Villi", finger-like projections on the small intestine (their purpose is to increase the surface area for water and nutrient absorption) are four-hundredths of an inch long. |
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