Harvard accepts just 5.9% of applicants, but getting into Harvard is a piece of cake compared to getting a job at the Washington D.C. Walmart (2.6%), getting into the Shanghai branch of McDonald's Hamburger University (1%), or becoming a Delta Flight Attendant (less than 1%).
Apparently, Cap'n Crunch has been exaggerating his Navy service for decades. He wears just three stripes on his uniform cuffs, which makes him a commander, not a captain.
Humans have a total of 46 chromosomes, while potatoes have 48. All hail our potato overlords!
For years memes derisively comparing Chinese President Xi Jinping to the honey-loving bear Winnie the Pooh have circulated on the internet, so Pooh has periodically been banned. The word for "censorship" was banned to prevent dissent (you can't be guilty of a crime if nobody can describe it!) For one weekend in 2018, the country's censors even banned the use of the letter "N" on social media sites, possibly because "N" could be used to refer to the number of terms of office, as in a mathematical equation n > 2.
Legend has it that Italian-American restaurateur Caesar Cardini invented the salad in 1924 in Tijuana, Mexico when a dinner rush depleted the kitchen's supplies.
In August 2012, three-year-old Robert "Bobby" Tufts became mayor of Dorset, Minnesota for a one-year term when his name was drawn from a hat. In 2013, Tufts was elected for a second term. Tufts lost a re-election campaign in 2014 to 16-year-old Eric Mueller. Tufts's three-year-old brother, James, was elected in 2015.
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