Silly Facts Database - 20
In Old Testament times the Mediterranean Sea was called the Great Sea.
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Lynyrd Skynard was the name of the gym teacher of the boys who went on to form that band. He once told them, 'You boys ain't never gonna amount to nothin'.'
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Pearls melt in vinegar.
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According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the biggest ice cream sundae in the world was made in Alberta, Canada, in 1988. It weighed nearly 55,000 pounds. The same year, a baking company and a sheet-metal firm in Dubuque, Iowa, teamed up to produce the world's largest ice cream sandwich, which tipped the scales at nearly 2,500 pounds. And, in 1999, Baskin-Robbins created an ice cream cake at a beach hotel in the United Arab Emirates that weighed just under 9,000 pounds.
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Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce.
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