- Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
- Baby eels are elvers.
- Ballistics is the science that deals with the motion of projectiles.
- Bambi was originally published in 1929 in German.
- Banana oil never saw a banana; it's made from petroleum.
- Bananas are actually herbs. Bananas die after fruiting, like all herbs do.
- Bananas grow pointing upwards.
- Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
- Barbara Bush's book about her English Springer Spaniel, Millie's book, was on the bestseller list for 29 weeks. Millie was the most popular "First Dog" in history.
- Barbers at one time combined shaving and haircutting with bloodletting and pulling teeth. The white stripes on a field of red that spiral down a barber pole represent the bandages used in the bloodletting.
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