Kermit the Frog was named after Kermit Scott, a childhood friend of creator Jim Henson, who became a professor of philosophy at Purdue University.

Pilgrims did not eat potatoes for Thanksgiving as they thought they were poisonous.

Estuarine crocodiles are the biggest of all 26 species of the crocodilian family.

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