Half the foods eaten throughout the world today were developed by farmers in the Andes Mountains (including potatoes, maize, sweet potatoes, squash, all varieties of beans, peanuts, manioc, papayas, strawberries, mulberries and many others).

One of pitcher Nolan Ryan's jockstraps sold at auction for $25,000.

There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

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