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Sannakji is a Korean dish made of raw baby octopus. Even after limbs are cut off and covered in sesame oil they still move. Especially the suction cups. They have been known to latch to the mouth and throat of eaters asphyxiating them. Always chew before swallowing.
Noted thespian Maurice Barrymore who was the father of noted thespians John, Lionel and Ethel Barrymore and the great-grandfather of noted thespian Drew Barrymore was shot by Wild West gunfighter Jim Currie in Marshall, Texas and almost died.
Every leap year has a presidential election but not every presidential election is in a leap year. Years marking the end of a century are only leap years if divisible by 400. 1800 and 1900 were not.
What is the largest manmade object? Let’s argue about it. By weight it would be China’ Three Gorges Dam coming in at 75 billion pounds. By length it would be submarine communications cable stretching from San Francisco to New Zealand coming at 6,700 miles.
There is no objective scale to determine the sourest food. Youtubers Good Mythical Morning gave it a subjective taste test and gave the crown to umeboshi, a Japanese pickled plum-like fruit with second place going to Toxic Waste candy.
Taste of Home says tops is Warheads candy followed by kimchi. They put umeboshi in sixth place.
Remember glass soda bottles? In 1976, when swine flu was the disease of the day, about 58 percent of soda sold in the U.S. came in such containers. Today it is but 1 percent.
Icicles kill about 15 persons per year in the United States.
Oyster farming was practiced by the ancient Romans as early as the 1st century B.C.
The United States had 450,000 more mental hospital beds in the 1950s that it does today.