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· Oprah Winfrey was Miss Fire Prevention before landing her own talk show.

· India is the only country in the world that has a Bill of Rights for cows.

· In medieval France, the penalty for an unfaithful wife was to force her to pursue a chicken running through the village, while naked.

· Tom Selleck appeared twice on "The Dating Game" and was never picked.

· Ancient Greeks awarded celery to winners of sporting events, and they were often carried by marathon runners.

· Cold showers have been shown to increase sexual arousal.

· There is a city in North Dakota named Oral.

· In 1957, a British law was amended to outlaw the boiling of criminals to death. Instead, the criminals would only be burned at the stake.

· Yuma experiences more sun than any other locale in the United States, with an average of 332 sunny skies per year.

· It snows more at the Grand Canyon than it does in Minneapolis, Minn.

· Tomatophagia is an eating disorder, in which people develop unusual cravings for things such as tomatoes, ice, detergent, starch and clay.

· In 1953, Catherine and Carolyn Mouton became the first Siamese twins successfully separated by surgery.

· More than 1.1 billion people watched badminton's 1992 Olympic debut on television.

· Someone with an irrational fear of childbirth is said to be tocophobic.

· A kangaroo cannot jump if its tail is lifted off the ground. It needs itstail for pushing off.

· There is only one city in the United States named Beach. It is in North Dakota, a completely landlocked state.