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3 years ago

In the TV series "Murder, She Wrote," Jessica Fletcher (portrayed by Angela Lansbury) lives in the Maine community of Cabot Cove. While this town is fictional, there is an actual place in Maine that is named Cabot Cove; it is an Atlantic Ocean inlet in the town of Kennebunkport.

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The Moon is about one-fourth the size of Earth in width.

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The fear of garlic is called “alliumphobia.”

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Snakes don’t have eyelids.

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The world’s heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,702 pounds and 13.9 ounces. It was grown by Stefano Cutrupi of Italy. This record-setting pumpkin was officially weighed at a pumpkin festival in the Italian municipality of Peccioli on September 26, 2021.

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Many leaves turn red in the fall due to pigments known as anthocyanins. These anthocyanins are produced by a lot of trees during that time of the year, and they cause the breakdown of chlorophyll (green pigments) and the disappearance of the color green in the impacted leaves.

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During her long life, Queen Elizabeth II visited the United States a total of six times. The first of these visits took place in 1951, when she was still a princess. Her trips as queen occurred in 1957, 1976, 1983, 1991, and 2007.

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The MLB teams with the most Baseball Hall of Fame inductees are the New York Yankees (a total of 27 inducted to date), New York Giants (20), and St. Louis Cardinals (18).

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Queen Elizabeth II routinely signed her correspondence and other papers with the name “Elizabeth R.” The R stood for “regina,” which is the Latin phrase for “The Queen.”

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The prongs on a fork are called tines.

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The lyrics for the popular lullaby "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" came from a poem that was penned by English writer Jane Taylor (1783-1824). This poem was entitled "The Star." It was first published in 1806 in a collection of poems entitled "Rhymes for the Nursery."

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Maryland’s present-day capital has been known as Annapolis since the mid-1690s, when it was officially renamed in honor of Princess Anne of Denmark and Norway. In 1702, she became Queen Anne of Great Britain after her husband King William III passed away.

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Most of the pretzels purchased and eaten in the United States are made in Pennsylvania. There are at least 40 pretzel companies in the Keystone State.

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Strawberries are technically not berries. Actual berries by definition have their seeds on the inside. A strawberry, however, has its seeds (an average of 200) on the outside.

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Only two states have official state toys -- Kansas (Etch-a-Sketch); and Mississippi (the teddy bear).

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One of the more unique memorials to baseball legend Jackie Robinson is an asteroid bearing his name. That asteroid was discovered in 1981 by astronomer Schelte J. Bus. Since Robinson is his all-time favorite MLB player, Schelte decided to name the asteroid after him.

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The largest-ever cup of coffee was created in 2019 at Bolívar Park in the city of Medellín in Colombia. A total of 50 people worked for more than a month on preparing that 6,007-gallon cup of Arabic coffee.

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Donald Duck made his public debut in the 1934 Walt Disney cartoon "The Wise Little Hen." His first spoken words were “Who, me? Oh, no! I’ve got a belly ache!” (He was trying to avoid doing some work.)