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In music, a 64th note is also called a "hemidemisemiquaver."
(say THAT five times fast...)
The painting known as Whistler's Mother is actually called Arrangement in Gray and Black.
The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long, or write approximately 50k english words.
The real name of the painting known as the Mona Lisa is La Giaconda. It's the portrait of a middle-class Florentine woman.
Tequila, indigenous to Mexico, is obtained from the agave which, contrary to myth, is not a cactus.
Audrey Hepburn's given name originally was Andrey. Andrey is a feminine form of Andrew. Belgian-born Hepburn changed the n to a u to become Audrey.
Camels store fat in the hump, not water. Baby camels are born without a hump, which comes later.
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My free will...I never leave home without it.
--House
Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
-Rita Rudner
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