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Question: What is the heaviest snake?
Answer: Anaconda
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Answer: Amos Tyler
Interesting Fact: On July 27, 1869, Amos Tyler received the first patent in the United States for chewing gum. Although chewing gum had existed for thousands of years, Tyler, a resident of Toledo, Ohio, was the first person to patent it in the United States. Tyler's gum consisted of white rosin and olive oil, which he heated and mixed thoroughly. After the mixture cooled, it had a white color. Then, Tyler cut his product into sticks and packaged each strip individually. There is no evidence that Tyler ever sold his gum commercially, although he probably at least had a local market for it in Toledo.
Question: When did the Peanuts comic strip first include Snoopy?
Answer: Oct. 4, 1950
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Question: How did junk email come to be known as Spam?
Answer: Monty Python "spam" skit
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Answer: 23 inches
Interesting Fact: The great anteater, or ant bear (Myrmecophaga), has an elongated, almost cylindrical head and snout, a long sticky tongue, a coarse-haired body about 4 feet long, and a long, broad tail. The large, sharp claws on the forefeet are weapons of defense and are used to open the hard earth mounds of termites and [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] ants, which are then picked up on [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] the saliva-coated tongue. The tongue extends to a length of nearly 2 feet.
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