- The expletive, "Holy Toledo," refers to Toledo, Spain, which became an outstanding Christian cultural centre in 1085.
- The extended right arm of the Statue of Liberty is 42 feet long.
- The Extensor digiti minimi manus is used to extend the little finger.
- The far side of the moon was first photographed by a Russian satellite in 1959.
- The fastest tectonic movement on earth is 240 mm per year, at the Tonga micro-plate near Samoa.
- The FDA allows an average of 30 or more insect fragments and one or more rodent hairs per 100 grams of peanut butter.
- The feet account for one quarter of all the human bodies bones.
- The fictional highwayman Dick Turpin's horse was called Black Bess.
- The first Academy Awards (or Oscar's) were presented on 16 May 1929.
- The first American advertisement for tobacco was published in 1789. It showed a picture of an Indian smoking a long clay pipe.
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