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November is Peanut Butter Lovers Month

7,000 new insects are discovered every year.

By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

Even Antarctica has an area code. It is 672.

A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.

According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until the 1730's, India was the only source for diamonds in the world.

Libra, the scales, is the only inanimate symbol in the zodiac.

November 7 is Men Make Dinner Day --- first Thursday of the month.

The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but not fly. It is also the only bird that can walk upright.

The number 4 is the only number in the English language that has the same number of letters in its name as in its meaning.

At 46 letters, Massachusetts's lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg has the longest place name in the U.S. (even though it's based on a joke). The lake's name from Ln. Nipmuc, an Algonquin language. the humorous trann is "You fish on your side, I'll fish on my side, and no one shall fish in the middle".

November is National Model Railroad Month.

November was the ninth month of the ancient calendar and has retained its name from the Latin novem, meaning "nine."

International Evolution Day: November 24, in celebration of Charles Darwin 's publication of "On the Origin of the Species" in 1859.

November 29 is Square Dance Day.

Ascot Racecourse dates back to 1711, when Queen Anne decided that a patch of land in an area called East Cote was ideal for "horses to gallop at full stretch." In 1813 , Parliament passed an act of enclosure, ensuring that Ascot Heath, though crown property, would be kept and used as a public racecourse through perpetuity. However some of the regulations for the week of Royal Ascot are still very strict. In the 1920's women in the Royal Enclosure were forbidden to smoke. Divorcees were banned from the Royal Enclosure until 1955, but convicted criminals and undischarged bankrupts are still banned.

The patron saint of housewives is Martha, the sister of Lazarus and Mary. She is also a patron saint of butlers, cooks, dietitians, domestic servants, homemakers, innkeepers, laundry workers, maids, manservants, servants, servers, single laywomen,and travelers.

Henry John Temple Palmerston , 3rd Viscount, must surely be the oldest prime minister to be cited as correspondent in a divorce case. he was seventy-eight when it happened.

Sources: www.holidayinsights.com; www.en.wikipedia.org; www.liveabout.com;

www.corsinet.com; www.funfunnyfacts.com; Enclyclopedia of Useless Information by William Hartston