Early in his career, William F. Buckley, Jr. was employed as a Spanish teacher at Yale.
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Chili is the official state dish of Texas.
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The weight of the Sun is two billion billion billion tons, about 333,420 times that of the Earth.
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MADRE In Mexico, Día de la Madre - Mother's Day - is celebrated the day before it's observed in the United States. It is a huge gala event, with mariachis starting at noon and family festivities throughout the day.
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EGADS In the military world, EGADS is an acronym for Electronic Ground Automatic Destruct System.
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New York City, named by Americans as the most dangerous, least attractive, and rudest city in a recent poll, is also, strangely enough, Americans' top choice as the city where they would most like to live or visit on vacation
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Seven thousand years ago, the ancient Egyptians bowled on alleys not unlike our own.
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Sandy Gardner, an Ottawa, Ontario journalist, coined the phrase "Beatlemania."
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The Andaman Islanders and the Pygmies are the only world's peoples not known to use fire.
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Fireflies like to light up together. Two found near each other will eventually start lighting up at the same time.
*** The Hercules global cluster is the brightest global cluster in the northern sky. It was discovered by English scientist Edmond Halley in 1714.
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Howdy, Howdy! I am a Mexican student in Texas and I was reading your trivia when I came across your mother's day in Mexico note. Mother's day in Mexico, unlike in the U.S., is celebrated always on May 10th. So, it is not always celebrated a day before Mother's day in the U.S. You are right though, when you say that it is a big celebration that includes mariachis :). God Bless you in your work, Nohemi