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Hidden Valley Ranch is more than just a dressing: It was a real place in Santa Barbara, California, that became famous for its house condiment.

During the Meiji Restoration, the government enforced equality of the classes and the samurai class disappeared in Japan; many former samurai took on civil servant or teaching jobs, instead.

Director David Lynch, born on January 20th, 1946, attended the inauguration of John F Kennedy in 1961 when he was fifteen. Along with hundreds of other Boy Scouts. Lynch saw Kennedy, along with outgoing President Dwight D. Eisenhower and future presidents Richard Nixon and Lyndon B. Johnson, as their limos drove by. “I realized I saw four consecutive presidents in that short amount of time, 10 inches from my face,” he told Scouting magazine in 2017.

The oldest person to ever give birth was a seventy-four-year-old woman in southern India who welcomed twin girls in 2019.

The largest crowd ever assembled to watch a wrestling event was in Pyongyang, North Korea, in 1995. It’s estimated that more than 300,00+ people attended the two-day event, but that probably wasn’t because of some latent love for sports entertainment in the isolated nation. As professional wrestler Scott Norton told Sports Illustrated, his limo driver clued in the American on what made the event so popular: attendance was mandatory.

Prior to Kohl’s department store, Max Khol opended Khol’s supermarket, which eventually became Khol’s Food Store- and instead of abandoning his orginal concept entirely, khol expanded into department stores and kept both. Khol’s Food Stores were sold to A&P in 1983

Contrary to what you might expect, the largest tire manufacturer in the world isn’t Goodyear or Bridgestone. If you take toys into account, it is actually LEGO. The Danish brand makes over 300 million rubber tires annually and has held the Guinness World Record for the largest toy Tire manufacturer since 2011.

Medieval falks brought a sense of humor to the naming of hunting dogs. One fifteenth-century manuscript recorded Lewde, Badde, Nameles, and Spowse on a list moniker. Other entertaining entries include Argument, Feete, and Salmon.

Crackleberries is old-timey slang for eggs.

“Moonlight” (2016) made history by becoming, when adjusted for inflation, the lowest-budget film ever to win the Best Picture award at the Oscars. Barry Jenkins created the movie for just $1.5 million. In comparison, the first winner of the Best (originally Outstanding) Picture award, “Wings,” had a budget of two million dollars in 1927.

You can tell zebra species apart by looking at the pattern of stripes on their rump: Mountain zebras have smaller stripes; plain zebras have broad bands; and Grevy’s zebra stripes come together to form a kind of triangle.

The first transatlantic phone call (i.e., not a test or experiment), was made between New York City and London on January 7, 1927. During a test the previous day, technicians made small talk about the weather.

A single strand of spaghetti can be called a spaghetto.

The blood and livers of slain gladiators were considered tremendously valuable under the Roman Empire, as people used them to treat epilepsy.

Groaners: World’s Best of Bad Jokes and Puns

Q: What is the worst vegetable to serve on a boat?

A: Leeks