1. The inventor of the Polaroid camera, Edwin Land, held 535 patents and is second only to Thomas Edison in the number of U.S. patents granted for inventions.
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2. The Beluga whale is also known as the “Sea Canary” because of the high-pitched squeaks, squeals and whistles it makes.
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3. The sports drink Gatorade is named for the Gators, the University of Florida football team.
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4. Words that are derived from the same root, like beautiful and beauteous for eg., are said to be paronymous.
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5. The roadrunner is the official state bird of New Mexico.
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6. The word gas is derived from the greek word for chaos.
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7. Amish men shave until they marry; then they grow a beard.
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8. Ben Jonson, the Elizabethan playwright (and contemporary of William Shakespeare) is buried at Westminster Abbey, but in an upright standing posiiton.
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9. An epithalamium is a poem written to celebrate a wedding.
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10. No woman has ever won an Oscar for Best Direction. And only 3 women have been nominated for the best director Oscar: Lina Wertmuller for Seven Beauties (1975), Jane Campion for The Piano (1993), and Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation (2003).
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