- Native Indians have been known to paint their doors blue, which they believe keeps the bad spirits out.
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- According to studies, men prefer to have white bedrooms and women prefer to have blue bedrooms.
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- An artist from Chicago named Dwight Kalb created a statue of Madonna made out of 180 pounds of ham.
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- The most valuable painting made by a female artist is "In the Box," painted by Mary Cassatt. It was sold for $3.67 million at Christie's in New York City.
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- The colours yellow, red, and orange are used in fast food restaraunts because those are the colours that stimulate hunger.
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- The weight of a year's worth of New York Times newspapers is about 520 pounds.
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- Caterpillar means "hairy cat" in Old French.
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- Witchcraft means "Craft of the Wise Ones."
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- The magic word 'Abracadabra' was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.
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- The term "devil's advocate" comes from the Roman Catholic Church. When deciding if someone should be sainted, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view.
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- Ballroom dancing is a course at Brigham Young University in Utah.
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- The mythical Scottish town of Brigadoon appears for one day every one hundred years.
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- A language becomes extinct in this world every two weeks.
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- American novelist Mark Twain was the first known author to submit a typed manuscript.
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- The word "toy" comes from an old English word that means "tool."
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- The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters.
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- Robert Southey wrote the story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" in 1834.
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- In 1983, a Japanese artist, Tadahiko Ogawa, made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of ordinary toast.
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