Half the foods eaten throughout the world today were developed by farmers in the Andes Mountains (including potatoes, maize, sweet potatoes, squash, all varieties of beans, peanuts, manioc, papayas, strawberries, mulberries and many others).

In her later years, Florence Nightingale kept a pet owl in her pocket.

There is a town called Jersey Shore in Pennsylvania.

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