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Today is the 35th anniversary of the first use of "Mr. Yuk".

The Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick is Ireland's chivalrous order. The last Knight of St. Patrick was Prince Henry, third son of King George V, who was made a knight of the order in 1937 and died in 1974.

A flapjack can be either an oatmeal bar/cake, a pancake, or a hydraulic machine.

An Australian standard tablespoon measure is 5 millileters more than a US standard tablespoon measure.

There is a strain of research rat (often used in studying cancers) that has no immune system. This strain of rat grows no fur.

Defibrillation isn't intended to start a heart that has stopped beating - instead, it completely stops the heart, which then is supposed to start beating on its own.

The word 'avocado' comes from the Nahuatl word for the fruit, 'ahuacatl', which means 'testicle'.

Cocoa nibs are the closest edible thing to raw cocoa beans.

The highest recorded blood alcohol level was 0.914. 0.5 is usually considered lethal.

There are still trains that run the Orient Express line.

Heroin was developed in an attempt to come up with a non-addicting alternative to morphine. It was originally marketted by the Bayer Corporation as a cough medicine.