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On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of
Independence Hall is 4:10
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South
Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber
machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded
into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it
got "the whole 9 yards."
The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle
The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of
5megabytes
Charlie Brown's father was a barber
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously

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