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john mccain was born in the panama canal zone.

The two current senators from Iowa are Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has more liberal abortion views than Scott Walker.

late king rama IX of thailand was the only monarch to have been born on american soil.

President Obama has had 9 different species named after him in recognition of his focus on the environment and clean energy. He has more animals - which range from a trapdoor spider (Aptostichus barackobamai) to an extinct lizard (Obamadon gracillis) - named for him than any other POTUS in history, though Teddy Roosevelt’s 7 namesakes are a close second.

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ultramarine was originally made from grinding lapis lazuli into a powder.

I'm worried that everyone already knows this but I'll give it a try. Bhutan ranks its success based on gross national happiness and they also paint penises on their building walls to drive away evil spirits.

^ i didn't know that.

one single frame of zootopia could take more than 20 hours to render.

Drew Barrymore got her role in E.T. because she ‘lied her face off’ when she met Steven Spielberg. At an audition for another film, she told him she was not an actress, but was the drummer of the Purple People Eaters, a punk rock band with painted faces that had played to a packed arena the night before. He was so impressed with her imagination that she was the first kid he cast in the film.

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Owls have a tracheal opening underneath their tongue similar to a snake. They can breathe EVEN when they have a prey item blocking their throat.

Rabbits should not be given carrots as part of their regular diet.
Cats should NEVER be given milk
Ducks should NEVER eat bread
Australian Shepards are were not originally bread in Australia
Poodles are are actually German, not French
Great Danes are from Germany, not Denmark
Chihuahuas are thought to be from China, not Mexico
Boston Terriers are not true terriers

The true Siamese cat of Thailand is the Korat.

Sir Roger Bannister, the first man to break the four minute mile, became a neurologist. Now in his 80s, he has Parkinson's Disease.

Denis Istomin and Rafael Nadal are both 30 years old and both have musicians in their families. Rafa's grandfather, also named Rafael, is a symphony conductor and Denis Istomin's uncle, Mikhail, is a cellist.

Denis Istomin was born in Orenburg, Russia, on the border with Kazakhstan, moved to Tashkent, Uzbekistan and now lives in Moscow. He traveled on both sides on the Ural Mountains by the time he was three months old.

The TSA will let you through airport security with more than 3.4 oz of liquid as long as there’s a live fish in it. Large amounts of liquids are banned because they could conceal explosives, but if a liquid did contain explosives, the fish wouldn’t survive. (On that note, who do this, carry a live fish in a bag like that on a plane?)

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Ethiopian marathon champion Abebe Bikila was a palace guard for Emperor Haile Selassie.

His name means "budding flower" in Amharic.

The three top men vying to become the first to break the four-minute mile were Roger Bannister (Great Britain), John Landy (Australia) and Wesley Santee (U.S.A.). Of these, only Santee never broke four minutes in his career, which was cut short on allegations of professionalism.

Roger Bannister was bullied and teased for being a "swot," Britain's equivalent of a nerd.
Wes Santee began running to escape an abusive father in Ashland, Kansas.
John Landy was a butterfly collector.

There is only one word that rhymes with orange. It is the word sporange ( which is a very rare alternative form of sporangium (witch is a term for a part of a fern or similar plant))

The first lyrics of "The Circle of Life" in The Lion King are "Nants ingonyama bagithi baba." In English, this translates to "Here comes a lion, father," and the following lyrics just repeat "It’s a lion, oh yes, it’s a lion".

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Incoming US Presidents are not required to use a bible when being sworn into office, but very few have not. John Quincy Adams, who was a deeply religious man, chose to swear on a book of law because he wanted to make it clear that he was protecting the Constitution and laws of the United States above all else.

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