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In bowling alley slang, a "turkey" is three strikes in a row. The term dates back to the late 1800s when, around the holidays, bowling alley owners presented live turkeys to the first member of the team to score three consecutive strikes.

 

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The word "steak" means a thick cut of food, and it can include anything from an eggplant steak to a salmon streak. However, according to food experts, beefsteak must be cut at least an inch thick if it's to be broiled over or under the flames. If it's thinner than this, the heat of the broiler penetrates the inside of the meat before the outside is browned. The inside then becomes well-done, the juices seep out, and the flavor is bland.

 

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Elephant herds post their own sentries. When danger threatens, the sentry raises its trunk and though it may be as far as a half-mile away, the rest of the herd is instantly alerted. how this communication takes place is not understood.

 

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According to the National Geographic Society, a survey of 18- to 24-year-olds from nine nations put the United States dead last in general geographic knowledge scores. One in seven — about 24 million people — could not find their own country on a world map. The survey revealed that Americans possess a pathetically poor sense of where they are — much less any knowledge about the rest of the world. And even more alarming, those who participated in the survey were recent high school and college graduates.

 

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An expert in testing coins is called a "shroff."

 

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In 1977, according to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, there were 14.5 telephone calls made for every 100 people in the entire world

 

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Meramec Caverns is the largest commercial cave in the state of Missouri. Missouri is also known as the “Cave State,” as it is home to more than 6,000 surveyed caves. Over the centuries, local tribes of Indians used Meramec Caverns as shelter. In the 1700s, French miner Jacques Renault founded one of the Cavern's greatest natural resources, saltpeter. This substance was used exclusively for the manufacture of gunpowder. Local legend claims the cave was used as a station on the "Underground Railroad" to hide escaping slaves. In the early 1870s, Jesse James and his band hid in the Caverns on many occasions because it afforded a safe hideout for men and horses after train and bank robberies.

 

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Emily Dickinson wrote more than 900 poems, of which only four were published during her lifetime.

 

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Signing a memorial to Congress for the abolition of slavery was the last public act of Benjamin Franklin

 

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In 1939, a shower of tiny frogs fell on the English town of Trowbridge. Strong winds had carried them aloft from streams and ponds.

 

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The Mojave ground squirrel, found mainly in the American West, hibernates for two-thirds of every year.

 

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Kickers score more points than anyone else in professional football. George Blanda, who began his 26-year career in 1949 and ended it as a kicker in 1975, scored 2,002 points — more points than any other player.

 

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The bombardier beetle, when disturbed, defends itself by emitting a series of explosions, sometimes setting off four or five in succession. The noises sound like miniature popgun blasts and are followed by a cloud of reddish-colored, vile-smelling fluid.

 

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On an average day in the mid 1990s, more than 13,000 people trekked to the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Because of the wear and tear on the natural wonder's fragile environment, tourism is now being limited, as are sight-seeing helicopters and motor vehicles in the national park.

 

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The jewel-studded St. Edward's Crown, worn only at coronations, weighs about seven pounds.

 

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The Gulf Stream travels 111 miles across the Atlantic Ocean each day.

 

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In Britain, the law was changed in 1789 to make the method of execution hanging. Prior to that, burning was the modus operandi. The last female to be executed by burning in England was Christian Bowman. Her crime was making counterfeit coins.

 

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Wellington College, which was founded in 1853 and specialized in educating the sons of soldiers, was quick to adopt its own set of colors for its sports teams. Its rugby team played in orange-and-black striped jerseys, while its cricket team sported light-blue caps piped with yellow — colors taken, curiously but appropriately, from the ribbon of the Crimean War medal.

 

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The sea otter's dark fur is the finest and densest of any animal fur. On an adult animal, there are approximately 650,000 hairs per square inch. A sea otter relies on its fur to keep it warm — it doesn't have blubber as other marine mammals do. Natural oils in a sea otter's fur repel water.

 

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