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• The only remake of an Elvis Presley song ever to hit the top ten was Cheap Trick's Don't Be Cruel, which hit number 9 in 1988.
• The blond woman in the Tic Tac commercials is Mark Harmon's sister.
• Nowhere during its entire run was it stated what city was the setting for Hill Street Blues. Exteriors and "establishing shots" of buildings were shot in Chicago. Street scenes with the actors were filmed in New York. The patrol cars, which usually have their city name written on the side, simply said "Metro Police." Many of the characters had New York accents, it snowed during the winter, but it was established on more than one occassion that it was a three- to five-hour drive to Nevada.
• America's only statue of Charles Dickens graces Clark Park in Philadelphia, just off the University of Pennsylvania campus.
• No matter where you are in Australia you are never more than 1000 kilometers from the ocean.
• All owls lay white eggs.
• It takes a week to make a jelly bean.
• NASA scientists are still receiving data from Voyager even though the signal it is emitting has less energy than that emitted by a blowdrier.
• You can't tickle yourself.
• People from Manchester, England are called Mancunians.
• White cockatoos are the only parrots that can be sexed by eye color; females have a visible pupil while males have black irises.
• The University of Texas system is the third-largest landowner in the United States.
• Marvin Gardens in the Monopoly game is not spelled the same as the Marven Gardens outside of Atlantic City, NJ, which the board game is based on.
• While drug-sniffing dogs are trained to bark like crazy, go "aggressive" at the first whiff of the right powder... Bomb-sniffing dogs are trained to go "passive" lest they set off a motion sensor or a noise sensor or any number of other things that might go kablooie.
• While almost everyone knows that Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon, few know that Gene Cernan was the last man on the moon.
• Lyndon Johnson's First Family all had initials LBJ. Lyndon Baines Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson, Linda Bird Johnson and Lucy Baines Johnson. And his dog, Little Beagle Johnson.
• There are 22 stars in the Paramount movie studio logo.
• The voice that says "Hello," "You've got mail," and "Goodbye" on AOL is Elwood Eldrige, an employee.
• ■Jane Wyman (Reagan) was born Sarah Jane Fulks.
• Nancy Davis (Reagan) was born Anne Frances Robbins.
• A humpback whale's milk is 54 percent fat.
• Lucy Stone of Massachusetts is thought to be the first American woman to retain her maiden name when she married. She was a sister-in-law of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first American woman to earn an M.D.
• When wearing a Kimono Japanese women wear socks called "Tabi". The big toe of the sock is separated from the rest of the toes, like a thumb from a mitten.