Both Thomas Jefferson and Jimmy Carter, U.S. presidents, were peanut farmers at one time.

In July 1874, a swarm of Rocky Mountain locusts flew over Nebraska covering an area estimated at 198,600 square miles. It is estimated that the swarm contained about 12.5 trillion insects. These insects became extinct thirty years later.

The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.

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