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Vinegar is made from wheat.

In 1962, Chevrolet introduced the 150 hp turbocharged Monza Spyder option for Monza coupes and convertibles mid year, making the Corvair one of the first two production automobiles to come with a turbocharger as a factory option, with the Oldsmobile F-85 Turbo Jetfire of the same year.

Actress Judy Garland was 16 yeas old when she filmed "The Wizard of Oz" in 1939.

In the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, Toto was played by a black Cairn Terrier whose real name was Terry. Terry was paid a $125.00 salary each week, which was far more than many of the human actors (the Singer Midgets only received $50.00 a week). Also, Terry was stepped on by one of the witch's guards, and a double had to be used because her foot was broken. The popularity of the movie actually changed her name to Toto, because that was the role she was most remembered for. However, The Wizard of Oz wasn't the only film that Terry played a role. She actually starred in 13 films.

There are no mountians in Ireland
so the Dublin mountians should be called the Dublin hills as they and all other "Mountains" in Ireland are under the height that fits the offical definition of a mountain

There is a village in Scotland called California.This is a rare instance of a place in the
Old World being named for one in the New World.

California, comes from "Califia" a mythical paradise in old Spanish romance word

I love London, for what it was, up until the April of 2003. The city of Routemasters.

Ding! Ding!

It takes an average of 345 squirts to yield a gallon of milk from a cow's udder.

The rock band "10 CC" was named for the amount of ejaculate that an average man has at orgasm. That is, 10 cc's of seminal fluid.

Each square inch of human skin consists of 19 million cells, 60 hairs, 90 oil glands, 19 feet of blood vessels, 625 sweat glands, and 19,000 sensory cells.

The longest word in the English language weighs in at 1185 letters. It is the name of the Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Dahlemense Strain.

According to Aristotle, the liver served as the body's seat of emotions.

(Incidently, Chinese medical theory says to provide liver support for emotional problems. Are you getting enough beta-carotene?)

If you were in outer space without a spacesuit on, you wouldn't actually undergo explosive decompression (like in sci-fi movies); you'd just get the bends and start f*rting a lot.

Barbados, in the eastern West Indies, is one of the world's most densely populated countries.