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Havana has about one million cyclists. An average of two cyclists are killed in traffic accidents there every three days.

The late Drs. George and Charlotte Blonsky filed a patent for a device to help women to give birth. The mother-to-be is strapped to a circular table, which is then rotated at high speed to expel the infant by centrifugal force.

One can score 8 points in football with a touchdown and 2-point conversion, a touchdown and safety, two field goals and a safety, four safeties, a touchdown and runback of intercepted 2-point conversion by opponent, two field goals and the above mentioned runback, four of those runbacks, three of the runbacks and one safety, two of the runbacks and two safeties, one of the runbacks and three safeties.

You can blow bubbles through a chunk of porous oak, provided it is cut the right way and the xylem is running vertically.

The name avocado comes from the Aztec word for testicle.

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