"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."
-George Bernard Shaw

Every day, millions of dead skin cells are sloughed off or worn away from the surface of your skin. In fact, every 35 to 45 days, you have an entirely new epidermis.

 

Social security numbers (SSNs) are not random numbers. They are assigned regionally and in batches.


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Traditional absinthe is made of anise, fennel and wormwood (a plant). Various recipes add other herbs and flowers to the mix.

"Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches."
-Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

 

Domestic turkeys can't fly; they lose their aerodynamic properties because of how they are bred for heavy meat production, although they will sometimes try to hop around. Wild turkeys, however, can fly for short bursts.


"Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family."
-Anthony Brandt

 

The phrase "God bless you" is attributed to Pope Gregory the Great, who uttered the phrase in the sixth century during a bubonic plague epidemic (sneezing is an obvious symptom of one form of the plague).

"Surely joy is the condition of life."
-Henry David Thoreau

 

Tattoos found on Egyptian and Nubian mummies date from about 2000 B.C.



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A dog's sense of smell is almost 50 times more sensitive than a human's.



"One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood."
-Agatha Christie

 

The liquid explosive nitroglycerin was invented in 1847.



"Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil."
-Jerry Garcia

 

In 496 A.D., Pope Gelasius named February 14 in honor of St. Valentine as the patron saint of lovers. In 1969, Pope Paul VI dropped it from the calendar.



"Romance is everything."
-Gertrude Stein