The Planters Peanut Company mascot, Mr. Peanut, was created during a contest for schoolchildren in 1916.

A mole can dig a tunnel three hundred feet long in a single night.

The name for Oz in "The Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."

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