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The bend in a flamingo's leg isn't a knee—it's an ankle.

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The Reese in Reese's Peanut Butter Cups is Harry Burnett Reese, a former Hershey employee who created his famous candy in the 1920s.

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An avocado never ripens on the tree, so farmers can use trees as storage and keep avocados fresh for up to seven months.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Netflix will still be there for fans of the old TV series "Friends," but maintaining the relationship will come at a steep price.

The video streaming service paid $100 million to keep showing "Friends" in the U.S. through 2019, according to a report in the New York Times . That's more than triple the $30 million a year Netflix had been paying for the long-running TV series

Here's a shot with the newer railroad bridge. The old bridge is cooler lookin'.

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Onions, apples and potatoes have the same taste. The differences that we feel are caused by their individual scents.

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Baby carrots are actually good old regular carrots that have just been cut down.

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The first fast-food restaurant in America was White Castle, known for it’s small, square hamburgers called “sliders.” The chain debuted in 1929, selling their sliders for only 5 cents each. The price went up to 10 cents a burger in 1945

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In 2010, during construction of the new World Trade Center in New York City, Subway engineered a mobile sandwich shop in a shipping container. The “restaurant” could be raised or lowered up the scaffolding of the building so that workers needn’t waste their 30-minute lunch breaks descending and ascending stairs or elevators to grab lunch.

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Have you ever wondered why fast food logos are often red and yellow? Think McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Pizza Hut and Burger King. Well, food scientists and psychologists have wondered about this too. Bright reds and yellow can subconsciously stimulate hunger and make us eat faster. That adds up to more calories for us, and more money for the fast food chains.

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Facebook is primarily blue because Mark Zuckerberg suffers from red-green color blindness.

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The Rubik's cube is the best-selling product of all time. The iPhone is second.

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Gambling generates more revenue than movies, spectator sports, theme parks, cruise ships, and recorded music combined.

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90% of all restaurants fail during their first year of operation.

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The world’s largest package delivery company, UPS, was founded by two teenagers with a bicycle and $100 borrowed from a friend.

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The red and white Coca-Cola logo is recognized by 94% of the world’s population.

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Starbucks is named after a character in Moby Dick by Herman Melville.

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Piggly Wiggly was the first true self-service grocery store. Before their founding in September 6, 1916, grocery stores did not allow their customers to gather their own goods. Instead, a customer would give a list of items to a clerk, who would then go through the store, gathering them.

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The Japanese never ate salmon sushi until the 1980s when a Norwegian businessman, hired by Norway’s government to offload excess salmon, made a deal with a Japanese company to sell the fish in its grocery stores, leading to its popularity today.

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Ingredients in the average bottle of prestige perfume cost about $1.20 to $1.50. The actual liquid in a typical bottle of $150 perfume is less than 1% of the retail cost. The bottle, box and display carton typically cost four to six times more than the fragrance itself

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The inventors of Hot Wheels (Elliot Handler) and the Barbie dolls (Ruth Handler) were married for over two decades before either toy was invented. Barbie and Ken were named after their children.

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A New Orleans restaurant has been owned by the same family since 1840. Antoine’s, famous for Oyster Rockefeller and Baked Alaska, has had five generations of the family run it, and a sixth is preparing to take over. It is the US’s oldest continuously family-run restaurant.

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Louis Chevrolet, the founder of Chevrolet died bankrupt and poor working as a mechanic for the company he started.

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After racking up a $40 late fee on a VHS copy of Apollo 13, Reed Hastings was inspired to start Netflix.

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When adjusted for inflation, the Dutch East India Company would be valued at about $7.4 trillion if it were still in business today, making it the most valuable company in history.

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The cost of a taxi permit in NYC is around $1,000,000.

Billy Durant, the founder of General Motors, died bankrupt and poor working as the manager of a bowling alley in Flint Michigan.

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Why musclecars get single digit miles per gallon

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The heart of a shrimp is located in its head.

Well . . . that's good to know . . . I had about 2 dozen peel-and-eat shrimp as part of my dinner tonite. Glad I wasn't eating shrimp hearts! LOL

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While Pope Gregory IX was in power, he declared that cats were to be associated with devil worship and had them exterminated in droves.

It’s believed that the disappearance of those cats helped rats spread the bubonic plague, or Black Death, that killed hundreds of millions of people in the 1300s.