Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

The oldest bird on record was Cocky, a cockatoo, who died in the London Zoo at the age of 82.

If the Nile River were stretched across the United States, it would run nearly from New York to Los Angeles.

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