Britons eat over 22,000 tonnes of french fries a week.

The real name of Toto the dog in "The Wizard Of Oz" was Terry.

When the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, received an alarming number of threatening letters, soon after her husband became President at the height of the Depression, the Secret Service insisted that she carry a pistol in her purse.

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