Squids move through the ocean using a jet of water forced out of the body by a siphon.

In 410 A.D. Alaric the Visigoth demanded that Rome give him three thousand pounds of pepper as ransom.

In 1948 and 1950 the oldest ears of popping corn were discovered. They were located in the Bat Cave of west central New Mexico. They ranged in size from smaller than a penny to approximately two inches, and were about 4,000 years old.

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