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    Fast Facts: Feb. 24

    • Pigs were introduced to North America by Christopher Columbus.

    • Rob Butler’s claim to fame: The only Canadian on the ‘93 Toronto Blue Jays World Series team.

    • England is two-thirds the size of New England.

    • McDonald’s originally served hotdogs, not hamburgers.

    • In an average year, 46 million people from foreign countries visit the U.S.

    • Odds of being injured by a toilet seat in your lifetime: One in 6,500.

    • U.S. straw sizes, in order of increasing diameter: Cocktail, slim, jumbo, super jumbo and giant.

    • The part of a map that says “”YOU ARE HERE”” is called the ideolocator.

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