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Ten Random FactsThe pair of fins at the back of a fish's body are called pelvic fins. In the late 1990s, newscaster Diane Sawyer's annual salary was $7 million a year. Electrical, flammable liquids, ordinary combustibles, and metal comprise the four types of fire. Pablo Picasso was born dead. His midwife left him on a table. Picasso's uncle brought him to life with a lung full of cigar smoke. The average person will consume 50 tons of food and 12,000 gallons of water in a lifetime. Butterfly wings are a marvel of fragility and strength. Tissue-thin, these wings withstand the demands of migration flights of thousands of miles. Chicken mole can be made with a range of complicated sauces, often including many kinds of chiles plus unsweetened chocolate. “Mole” (pronounced MO-lay) meant “concoction” in the Aztec language. The British call a large umbrella, especially one that is bulky or awkwardly wrapped, a "gamp." It is in allusion to the umbrella of Mrs. Gamp in Charles Dickens' work Martin Chuzzlewit. The Mayflower was a tiny ship. The vessel was not much larger than a modern tennis court, but it held 102 people. Jupiter is more than two and a half times larger than all the other planets combined. More random trivia, or select from the menu on the left to browse.
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