The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Artic to Mexico and back every year.

The first telephone call from the White House was from Rutherford Hayes to Alexander Graham Bell.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.

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