On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.

Some of the other names that were thought of for the dwarfs in the Disney movie "Snow White" were Awful, Dirty, Shifty, Hotsy, and Jumpy.

Among North Atlantic lobsters, about 1 in 5,000 is born bright blue.

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