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Eric Muhr
Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 1:00 am

An entrepreneurial Canadian farmer, Frazier Mohawk, started selling advertising space on the sides of his Jersey heifers in 1984. Each cow placement cost $500 for a year's use.

The U.S. exports 326,000 tons of chicken feet to China each year

The average human visits the restroom six to eight times per day.

One horsepower is supposed to be the average rate at which a horse does work, but since that's not a particularly useful definition, one horsepower has been standardized as 550 foot-pounds of work per second or 746 watts of power.

Slang words for drunkenness include the following: fuddled, muddled, reely, tipsy, got a crumb in his beard, had his wig oil'd, bit by a barnmouse, whittled, kisky, trolleyed, beagered, quisby, has a guest in the attic, pruned, spiced, drilled, mashed, legless, nazy, sponged, squiffy, spiffed, lamped and pontooned.

Eating like a bird doesn't necessarily require small, slow bites. A hummingbird, for instance, can get in up to 12 slurps of nectar per second.

In Arnold Schwarzenegger's first film, "Hercules in New York," Schwarzenegger played the character of Arnold Strong.

The world's largest exporters of frog meat are Indonesia, Belgium and China. Belgium is the largest exporter and importer of horse meat.

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Eric Muhr lives and works in Nampa. His column, For the Record, appears daily in the Idaho Press-Tribune and other newspapers. Eric serves on the board of the Nampa Public Library and teaches English at Nampa Christian High School. Back in junior high, he was nicknamed The Brain. You can e-mail him at ericmuhr@gmail.com.
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