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Salt absorbs red wine.
If you want a rough estimate of your daily caloric needs, multiply your weight by 10 if you’re a woman or by 11 if you’re a man. Add more calories if you’re very physically active.
Under optimal conditions, a ballpoint pen will produce more than 28,000 linear feet of writing – more than five miles – before running out of ink.
Ninety percent of all the world’s popcorn is grown in Indiana.
A potato has a head and a tail.
This article appears in May 3 • 2002.
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