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Spiral type lollipop with multi color

Caddie, Lone Ranger, lollipops

There are more chickens than people in the world.

In 1894 there were only 4 automobiles in the U.S

Midgets and dwarfs almost always have normal sized children, even if both parents are midgets or dwarfs.

A Cady, Caddy or Caddie became used for a general-purpose porter or errand boy in Scottish towns in the 18^th century, particularly used for delivering water. It was not until 1857 that the dictionary ascribes the use mainly to those carrying golf clubs. In the early days there were no bags and the clubs were carried in bundles.

The first product that the toy company Mattel came out with was picture frames.

Frogs can see forwards, sideways and upwards all at the same time. They never close their eyes, even when they sleep.

Crocodile babies don’t have sex chromosomes, the temperature at which the egg develops determines gender.

The Lone Ranger acquired his name after he was the sole survivor of a deadly ambush by violent outlaw Butch Cavendish, in which his brother and four other rangers were slain.

Until 1976, when the relevant piece of old legislation was finally repealed, London taxi drivers were breaking the law if they did not carry a bale of hay and a sack of oats in their cabs to feed the horses.

In 1999 in the United States, 907 people took out insurance against turning into vampires or werewolves.

The first confectionaries that closely resemble what we call lollipops date to the Middle Ages, when the nobility would often eat boiled sugar with the aid of handles or sticks. According to the book Food for Thought: Extraordinary Little Chronicles of the World, they were invented by George Smith of New Haven, Connecticut, who started making large boiled sweets mounted on sticks in 1908. He named them after a racehorse of the time, Lolly Pop and trademarked the lollipop name in 1931.

Sources: www.wisegeek.org; www.corsinet.com; www.scottishgolfhistory.org; www.funfunnyfacts.com; www.telegraoph.co,uk; encyclopedia of useless information by William Hartston; www.en,wikipedia.org; picture: www.en.wikipedia.org