Alligators have a powerful bite but the muscles that open the jaw are relatively weak. An adult human could hold the jaws of an alligator shut with their bare hands.

In 410 A.D. Alaric the Visigoth demanded that Rome give him three thousand pounds of pepper as ransom.

Two national capitals are named after U.S. presidents: Washington, D.C., and Monrovia, the capital of Liberia.

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