Fun fact #13: Edgar Allan Poe was actually born Edgar Poe, but he grew up under the care of a family with the surname Allan.
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Andrea, Informative | Andrea November 30, 2009 | 
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Fun fact #12: The holes in Swiss cheese (called “eyes”) are made as the cheese is ripening, caused by the expansion of gas in the cheese curd.
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Andrea, Informative | Andrea November 3, 2009 |
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Fun fact #11: The shoe company Converse was founded in 1908 in Malden, Massachusetts, when Marquis M. Converse opened the Converse Rubber Shoe Company.
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Andrea, Informative | Andrea September 27, 2009 |
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Fun fact #10: Facebook was founded by a student at Harvard University, Mark Zuckerberg, and some of his roommates and friends; originally membership was only available to students of the university.
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Andrea, Informative | Andrea September 18, 2009 |
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Fun fact #9: In 2006, about 12% of children ages 6-11 participated in sports, lessons, or clubs after school or on weekends.
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Andrea, Informative | Andrea August 20, 2009 |
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Fun fact #8: The popular Harry Potter book series (written by J. K. Rowling) has been translated into more than 60 different languages since the first book’s publication in June 1997.
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Andrea, Informative | Andrea July 17, 2009 |
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Fun fact #7: DC Comics’s “Batman” was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, first appearing in Detective Comics #27, in May of 1939.
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Andrea, Informative | Andrea July 7, 2009 |
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Fun fact #6: Cheetahs are the fastest land animals; they are capable of running 70-75 mph for short distances, and they can accelerate from a standstill position to 68 mph in only three seconds.
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Andrea, Informative | Andrea June 29, 2009 |
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Andrea, Informative | Andrea June 25, 2009 |
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Fun fact #4: The layout of the keyboards that you see commonly used today is called “QWERTY”; QWERTY keyboards were invented in the 1870’s and used for typewriters before computers came about.
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Andrea, Informative | Andrea June 9, 2009 |
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