I pondered these types of questions as a child, and discovered many interesting facts, such as: the inventor of the flush toilet was Sir Thomas Crapper, that the Baby Ruth candy bar was named not after the Sultan of Swat, but after President Grover Cleveland's first-born daughter, that hamburger has no ham in it because it was "invented" in Hamburg, Germany, and that Anthony Burgess called his novel A Clockwork Orange from an old English Expression meaning very strange (like a mechanical organism) to symbolize the nature of a person with free will to do good and evil but who can only do one or the other
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