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Oh Snapple: The Next Wave
I’ll take a break from county origins to bring you a little Snapple goodness.  Before me(well, to my right side) I have a placemat covered with Snapple caps.  Let’s dive in, shall we?
French author Michel Thayer published a 233-page novel which has no verbs.  The phrase “you’re a real peach” originated from the tradition of giving peaches to loved ones.  A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.  The jaguar, the largest cat in the Western Hemisphere, once lived all over the southern U.S.  He had a summer home, a winter home, etc. (I kid, I kid).  
The White House was originally called The President’s Palace.  It became the White House in 1901.  One is the only number with letters in reverse alphabetical order.  A group of gnats is called a trip.  Forty is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order.  Flying fish leap out of the water at 20 mph or more and can glide for over 500 feet. People don’t sneeze while they’re asleep because the nerves involved in the sneeze reflex are also resting.  Buzz Aldrin was one of the first men on the moon. His mother’s maiden name was also Moon.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.  Just a sugar cube of neutron star matter would weigh about 100 million tons on Earth.  Tennessee banned the use of a lasso to catch fish.  poison Ivy is not ivy and poison oak is not an oak.  They are both part of the cashew family.  Your big toe only has two bones and the rest have three.  Early football fields were painted with both horizontal and vertical lines, creating a pattern that resembled a gridiron. 
Every hour more than one billion cells in the body must be replaced.  An alligator can go through 3,000 teeth in a lifetime.  Meteorologists claim they’re right 85% of the time.  Sea otters hold each other’s paws while sleeping so they don’t drift apart.  A cat’s nose is ridged with a unique pattern, just like a human fingerprint.  A tiger’s night vision is six times better than a human’s.  A crocodile can’t stick out its tongue.  Hawaii is moving closer to Japan at the rate of almost 4 inches per year.  Giraffes can lick their own eyes. 
In Switzerland, it’s illegal to own only one guinea pig because they are prone to loneliness.  A pearl can be dissolved by vinegar.  The soil on Mars is rust color because it’s full of rust,  The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache.  I’ll close with a\ math mind-blower and, in the spirit of election season, two Presidential caps. 

111,111,111 x 111,111,111= 12,345,678,987,654,321.  Ulysses Simpson Grant was fined $20 for speeding on his horse.  All of the major candidates in the 1992, 1996 and 2,000 U.S. Presidential election were left-handed.