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The occupations of the three men in a tub were butcher, baker, and candlestick maker.
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The odds on dealing 13 cards of one suit are 158,753,389,899 to 1. The odds on dealing the perfect hand (13 cards of one suit) to a particular player is 635,013,559,559 to 1 and the odds on dealing a perfect game (4 players receiving a perfect hand) are 2,235,197,406,895,366,368,301,599,999 to 1.
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The official name of the St. Louis Gateway Arch is "The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial." The Gateway Arch looks taller than it is wider, but it is exactly 630 feet by 630 feet.
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The official state song of Georgia since 1922 has been "Georgia on My Mind".
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The Ohio river forms at the confluence of the Allegheny and the Monongahela.
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The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan."
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The oldest living thing in existence is not a giant redwood, but a bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of California, dated to be aged 4,600 years old.
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The oldest word in the English language is "town"
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
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The only bone in the human body not connected to another is the hyoid, a V-shaped bone located at the base of the tongue between the mandible and the voice box. Its function is to support the tongue and its muscles.
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The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet with exactly one end point is P.
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