The useless bits of info to see if we can make a million posts thread

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Columbia University is the second largest land owner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.

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The world's largest wine cask is in Heidleberg, Germany.

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Because their work was so physically demanding, slave sugar-cane cutters were the South's most costly field hands. At one point, their price became so high on the New Orleans slave market that the Louisiana planter tried to hire Irish and German immigrants instead. This plan backfired when the hired workers went on strike for double pay right in the middle of the sugar harvest

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Bananas do not grow on trees, but on rhizomes.

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The Statue of Liberty's tablet is two feet thick.

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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

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Way back when they were using marble columns, the people selling the columns would carve out the centers and fill it with wax. So the people buying them started asking "Is it without wax?" Or in other words "Are you sincere?"

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The smallest mushroom's name is "Hop-low."

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Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

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Residents of the island of Lesbos are Lesbosians, rather than Lesbians. (Of course, lesbians are called lesbians because Sappho was from Lesbos.)

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A-1 Steak Sauce contains both orange peel and raisins.

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The straw was probably invented by Egyptian brewers to taste in-process beer without removing the fermenting ingredients which floated on the top of the container.

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A Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes.

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The lot numbers for the cyanide-tainted Tylenol capsules scare back in 1982 were MC2880 and 1910MD.

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The ball assembly on top of a flagpole is called the truck.