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Truck drivers call prostitutes at truck stops “lot lizards.”
Billy Bob Thornton has a fear of antique furniture. The producers of his movie Bandits found out about this and included it in the movie.
Russia’s launch of Sputnik 1 inspired the term “beatnik.”
In the United Kingdom alone, more than £60 million (about $117 million) is spent annually on dealing with the effects of leaves on railroad tracks.
Eighty percent of people in the U.S. die in a hospital.
This article appears in 2006.
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