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Thursday January 15, 2009 |
| The Battle of New Orleans, which made Andrew Jackson a national hero, was fought two weeks after the War of 1812 had ended and more than a month before the news of the war's end had reached Louisiana. |
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| The three-toed sloth of tropical America can swim easily, but it can only drag itself across bare ground. |
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| Carp are the largest of the minnows -- it's a big family, including over 300 American species, mainly small freshwater fishes. True minnows (family Cyprinidae) are soft-rayed fishes with teeth in their throats only. |
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| In the late 1970s, Coca-Cola Co. boycotted the NBC late-night comedy show Saturday NightLive" for several years. The giant soda company was retaliating against a frequent character of comedian John Belushi's, a Greek restaurant owner, who repeatedly said to customers, "No Coke, Pepsi," thus saying the rival company's name dozens of times throughout each skit. |
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| Every time it erupts, Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park spurts up to 8,000 gallons of 199-degree water about 140 feet into the air. |
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| Two meteorites found in Antarctica are from an asteroid with an outer layer or crust similar to the Earth's continents, U.S. scientists said Thursday.
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