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Since 2004, only chewing gum of therapeutic value is allowed into Singapore following the Singapore-United States Free Trade Agreement. This law was created because people disposed of gum incorrectly by sticking it under places like chairs or tables.
Mr. Potato Head is an American toy consisting of a plastic model of a potato which can be decorated with a variety of plastic parts that can attach to the main body. The toy was invented and developed by George Lerner in 1949, and first manufactured and distributed by Hasbro
The term was coined in 1938 by 9-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner. Kasner popularized the concept in his 1940 book Mathematics and the Imagination. A googol is equivalent to ten raised to the power of a hundred (10100).
Jiffy is an informal term for any unspecified short period of time, as in “I’ll be back in a jiffy”. From this it has acquired a number of more precise applications for short, very short, or extremely short periods of time. The earliest technical usage for jiffy was defined by
Dueling is Still Legal in Paraguay. However, duels can only take place between two people, the duel must be registered with the authorities, there has to be medical staff on hand, and participants must be registered blood donors.
There are over 2100 and by some counts over 3000 languages spoken natively in Africa. There are several other small families and language isolates, as well as obscure languages that have yet to be classified. The Languages of Africa are a diverse set of languages, many of which bear little
The ridges on the edges of dimes and quarters was designed to prevent both counterfeiting and “clipping’” — the practice of shaving some of the metal off the edge, which would quickly add up, seeing as the coins were originally made of silver.
The pound (abbreviations: lb) is a unit of mass used in the imperial, United States customary and other systems of measurement. 1 pound is equal to 0.45359237 kilograms. The form lb is actually an abbreviation of the Latin word libra, which could mean both balance scales (hence the symbol for
The West Point Mint Facility was erected in 1937 near the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York. Originally it was called the West Point Bullion Depository. At one point it had the highest concentration of silver of any U.S. mint facility. It gained official status as a branch