In the United States, the first cookbook was published in 1796 and it contained a recipes for watermelon rind pickles.

Ticks can be as small as a grain of rice and grow to be as big as a marble.

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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