The famous Christmas song "Jingle Bells" was written for a Thanksgiving program in 1857 by James Pierpont. At the time, the song was called "The One-Horse Open Sleigh."

The duckbill platypus can store as many as six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks.

The mythical Scottish town of Brigadoon appears for one day every one hundred years.

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