Chef Boyardee is actually a real person. His real name is Hector Boiardi and he was born in northern Italy in 1898.

Painting a house yellow or having a yellow trim helps in selling a house faster.

In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.

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