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    In the UK, it is illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas Day.
     
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    You are correct! :thumbsup:

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    Photographs are some of the worst examples to use when teaching photography.
     
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    Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.
     
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    Kinky is with a feather.
    Perverted is with the whole duck.
     
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    At London Fashion Week 2019, pranksters set up a fake model, wearing totally ridiculous outfits, and tricked several Fashion Week photographers into "covering" the new 16-year-old modeling sensation.
     
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    When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
     
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    Over 50% of the time spent in U.S courtrooms has to do with automobile or traffic-related cases.
     
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    The average woman uses her height in lipstick every 5 years.
     
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    The standard bugle, the simplest of the modern brass instruments, can only play the notes (beginning at tenor C) C, C, G, C, E, G and, with difficulty, B-flat. All bugle calls are composed of these notes only.
     
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    Human saliva has a boiling point three times higher that of regular water.
     
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    "Chubby Checker", the stage name of recording artist Ernest Evans (Twist, Pony, Limbo, etc.) is a word play on the name Fats Domino.
     
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    If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop.
     
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    Most local police precincts in New York City will allow members of the general public to use the restroom, if they ask nicely.
     
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    Hyphephilia are people who get aroused by touching fabrics.
     
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    The J.C. Whitney Company, a long-standing mail-order (and now web) supplier of auto parts, began as a spin-off of Warshawsky Auto Supply of downtown Chicago. It was believed that a less-ethnic name would sell better among car buffs, thus the J.C. Whitney name was born.
     
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    The person who invented the Frisbee was cremated and made into frisbees after he died.
     
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