Ed Bonja, Elvis Presley’s photographer from 1970-77, used a Nikon F2.

According to Alton Brown of Good Eats, bananas are fruit, but the plants they grow on are actually herbs.

All baseballs in the major league are rubbed with Lena Blackburne Rubbing Mud to make them less slippery. A former umpire, Blackburn first sold the mud to American League teams in 1939 and to the National League in the 1950s.

The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans 10-to-1.

Short scale is English for “échelle courte,” a system of numeric names in which the word billion means a thousand millions. Long scale is English for the French term “échelle longue,” a system (widely used around the world) in which the word billion means a million millions.

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