Ed Cox from San Francisco invented the pot scrubbing S.O.S. pads in 1917. His wife came up with the name, which stands for "Save Our Saucepans."

The largest known hailstone to have fallen was in Germany in 1925, which weighed close to four and a half pounds.

A pineapple is neither an apple or a pine. It is, in fact, a large berry.

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