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

Every continent has a city called Rome.

Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes.

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