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Pink dolphins live in the Amazon River in South America.


Sylkat

York, PA was the first Capitol of the United States, since the Articles of Confederation were signed here.

Corned Beef and Cabbage is not an authentic Irish dish.

The basic recipe is the same, but the meat they used back in Ireland was bacon.


Sylkat

Animals are more closely related to fungi than to plants.

Witch Balls were not intended to frighten them away, but rather to fascinate them so they would be mesmerized and not enter people's homes.


Sylkat

The only natural monkeys in Europe are found in Gibraltar.

Rabies can be caught by inhaling the droplets of urine from infected bats when exploring caves with large bat populations.


Sylkat

The phrase "and they lived happily ever after" was originally "happily until they died".

The "I'm Feeling Lucky" button costs Google $100 million each year.

Marvel once published a comic about "Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Ham" in 1983. He was a Spider-Pig named Peter Porker.

Bob Marley was buried with his red Gibson guitar, a bible opened to Psalm 23, and a bud of marijuana.

Ads don't appear on searches routed through the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button since it takes the user straight to the website. If all of the searches that go through the button instead were conducted as normal searches, then Google would make that much more in ad revenue.

Stephen King was once so broke, he could not pay his electric bill.


Sylkat

There is a Titanic II currently being built and it's scheduled to set sail in 2016.

Throughout the movie "Silence of the Lambs", the character Hannibal Lector never blinks.

There is a metal called Gallium that can melt in your hand.

In Ancient Rome, bordellos were advertised by large (VERY large) carved phalluses displayed outside the front door.


Sylkat

The distance between the foul line and the head pin on a bowling alley is 60 feet.