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1.How many hotels are operated on the Disneyland grounds, owned by Disney?

2.Name the only Disneyland ride to hang from the ceiling?

“What youngster has not dreamed of flying with Peter Pan over moonlit London, or tumbling into Alice’s nonsensical Wonderland?”

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TRUE or FALSE? • There are more tigers in private collections in Texas than there are left in the wild.

• One species of shark can live over 400 years.

• Sharks appeared on Earth before trees evolved.

• Turkeys can spontaneously impregnate themselves.

• A child does not develop kneecaps until they’re nearly a toddler.

• Aphids give birth to pregnant aphids.

• A cloud can weigh over a million pounds.

• A human liver can be split in two and both sides will regenerate into functioning livers.

• Leopards can carry a carcass twice their own body weight up a tree.

• Horses can’t vomit. Rodents can’t vomit.

• A single horse can actually put out about 15 horse power.

• The beak of a squid can close with more force than the jaws of a lion.

• Kangaroos outnumber humans in Australia. (continued on next page)

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• Finland and North Korea are separated by one country: Russia.

• One 18-inch pizza provides more pizza than two 12-inch pizzas.

• More people live in Bangladesh than in Russia.

• More people die every year from cow attacks than shark attacks.

• Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.

• Mastodons were still around when the Pyramids were built.

• If you lined up every planet in the solar system so they were all touching, they would fit inside the space between Earth and Moon.

• There are more hydrogen atoms in a teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the ocean.

• Betty White is older than pre-sliced bread.

• Not once in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme does it mention that he’s an egg.

• More people were murdered in Chicago in 2016 than in the U.K and Scandinavia combined.

• Charles Darwin and Steve Irwin owned the same tortoise.

• There are more fake flamingos than real flamingos in the world.

• Killer whales are dolphins, not whales.

• If you save a penny today and double that amount each subsequent day, you will end up with over 10 million dollars within 30 days.

• People in Duluth, Minnesota live farther north than half of Canada’s population.

• The human brain is the only organ to have named itself.

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• A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

• Ireland is further north than all the U.S. states except Alaska.

• Kangaroos can’t hop backwards.

• A group of pugs is called a grumble.

• Crocodiles never stop growing.

• The fax machine was patented in 1843.

• If you took all the humans in the world and stood them shoulder to shoulder and front to back, they would all fit inside the city limits of Los Angeles.

• Picasso died the same year that Pink Floyd released “Dark Side of the Moon.”

• Giraffes only sleep a total of 30 minutes a day.

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• “Cliché” is 34 derived from the sound that early Week printing presses made August 14 -August 20for every print.

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• Hawaii is the only state in the U.S. that has never experienced a temperature above 100 F (37.7 C) or below 0 F (-17.8 C) .

• If you make $18,000 USD a year, you are in the top 5% of the world’s richest people.

• Your brain has more neural connections than there are stars in the universe.

• There are more ways to combine all 52 cards in a card deck than there are atoms in the Earth.

• Your foot is the same length as your forearm.

• Light roasted coffee has more caffeine than dark roast.

• Maine is the closest state to Africa.

• The tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable. (continued on next page)

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• The only substance that expands when it gets colder is water.

• Palm trees are more closely related to true grasses than trees.

• The U.S. has been at war for 93% of the time it has existed as a country.

• There are more lakes in Canada than all other lakes in the world combined.

• There are about 29,000 employees in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for all of Canada, compared to 50,000 in the New York Police Department for a single city.

• Apple seeds are poisonous.

• France executed the last person by guillotine several months after the first “Star Wars” movie was released.

• Goats have square pupils.

• Mt. Everest can fit inside the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, with room to spare.

• Between 1912 and 1948, art competitions were a part of the Olympics. Medals were awarded for architecture, music, painting, and sculpture.

• In the United Kingdom, all swans in the country belong to the Queen.

• The surface area of Pluto is equal to the land area of Russia.

• Roses will graft onto apple trees and live as long as the tree does.

• 50% of Japanese women live to be 89.

• The name “Jessica” was created by Shakespeare in the play “The Merchant of Venice.”

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WHITE SNAKEROOT • White snakeroot is a perennial plant related to the daisy family. It gets its name from the fact that Native Americans used a concoction of the plant to treat the symptoms of snake bite.

But few plants have caused as much misery as white snakeroot.

• In the early 1800s, pioneers moved into the frontier regions of the Midwestern United States. They settled along the Ohio River valley and its tributaries, which were the main transportation routes. White snakeroot grew wild there, preferring half-shaded riverbanks, thickets, and meadows. Livestock, left free to forage during the day, frequently grazed upon the tender shoots of white snakeroot, particularly in the spring when it’s one of the first plants to poke above the melting snows. The settlers were unfamiliar with the plant because it does not grow in the Eastern United States or Europe. What they didn’t know is the white snakeroot contains a toxin called tremetol.

• When ingested by a cow, the poison is concentrated in the milk, which is passed on to the calf. The mother cow may not suffer any symptom of poisoning at all, but the calf will soon suffer symptoms including loss of appetite, vomiting, gastrointestinal pain, constipation, weakness, and trembling. Coma and death inevitably follow. If the milk is consumed by a person, the same thing happens. Settlers dubbed the illness “milk sick.”

• No one knew what caused milk sick. There was no way of knowing if milk was contaminated prior to drinking it. Meat from an animal that had eaten white snakeroot was also deadly.

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Having been born on this homestead, John Peterson will celebrate his final retirement at 91 years young with this auction

2150 Liberty Dr. Niagara Falls, NY

INCLUDED EQUIPMENT :

After 41 years the Cabin Range owners are retiring, and Perry Auctions will sell the remaining inventory at our Niagara Falls facility

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584 International Diesel , 444 International Gas, 140 International Gas Culti-tractor w/ Fertilizer Attachment, 2600 Ford Gas, 1700 Ford Diesel

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SUPPORT PIECES: 5ft. 3 pt. Rototiller, 3 pt. Straw Spreader, 3pt. Plasticlayer, 3 pt. Vegetable Planter, International Fast Hitch Corn Planter International Fast Hitch One Bottom Plow, Fast Hitch Potato Hiller, 3 pt. Ditcher, 3 pt. Weed Sprayer (like new) 1- Four Wheel Wagon w/Steel Deck, 3- Farm Trailers(wooden) 12 ft. JD disc, 12 ft. Cultipacker, 12 ft. Springtooth Harrow, Log Splitter, Heavy Duty Standup Foot Stapler

MISCELLANEOUS Walk-In cooler 10x8,Vegetable Wash & Pack Line, 2 scales, Gas Boiler & Natural Gas Heater, Wooden Baskets of all sizes, Trays, Totes, Pallets, Hampers and Tubs

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WHITE SNAKEROOT (cont’d) • Milk sick killed Abraham Lincoln’s mother, Nancy Hanks, when she was 34. Sometimes half the people in a settlement might die of it.

The disease was prevalent throughout Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, and Illinois.

• In 1830, the Kentucky General Assembly offered a $600 reward to anyone discovering its cause.

• A woman in Illinois named Anna Bixby was the first person who put two and two together.

She noted that the illness became prevalent every spring when the white snakeroot first appeared above the ground, offering an inviting thing to nibble on for passing cattle. Cows tended to get sick, but other livestock did not.

She started following cows around to see what they were eating.

• While doing that, she met a Shawnee woman who told her of the poisonous qualities of the plant. Bixby harvested the plant and deliberately fed it to her cow, whose calf subsequently died from the disease. She spread the word among her neighbors, leading a campaign to rid the area of white snakeroot.

• Her attempts to notify authorities of her discovery fell on deaf ears, largely because she was a woman. A farmer named William Jerry also tried to spread the word in the year 1867.

American medical science did not officially identify the cause of milk sickness until 1928, when advances in biochemistry enabled the analysis of the plant’s toxin.

• Milk sickness is rare today. Current practices of animal husbandry generally control the pastures and feed of cattle. The pooling of milk from many producers lowers the risk. Still, milk sickness can occur if a person drinks contaminated milk or eats dairy products gathered from a single cow or from a smaller herd that has fed on the white snakeroot plant. There is no cure, but supportive treatment is available.

3:00PM Doors open for preview & registration 5:00PM Ammo Auction Begins 5:45PM Discovery auction of contents including traps, decoys, & fishing 6:00PM Live & Online bidding for major lots- Long Guns, Pistols, Mounts, and more Check our website: perryauctions.com for complete details, pictures, and descriptions

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In conjunction with this auction there is also an online only barrel auction now actively bidding until Sunday Oct. 29 –details at: perryauctions.com

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Mr. Peterson actively farmed this growing season

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Unfortunately for David Dunbar Buick, who incorporated the company in 1903, that wasn’t the case. In less than a year, the company was sold. Buick stayed on as a manager and worked on engine development, but only for two more years. When he left his namesake company in 1906, he sold his one remaining share of Buick for $100,000. That was a rather hefty sum at the time, but he lost it all in a series of unsuccessful ventures. At the time of his death in early 1929, he was virtually penniless. * It’s been reported that a shaved guinea pig bears a remarkable resemblance to a tiny hippopotamus. *** Thought for the Day: “Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.” -- Eric Hoffer (c) 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.

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