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Don’t be fooled by any holiday decorations showing lady leprechauns. In traditional Irish folk tales, there are no female leprechauns, only nattily attired little guys.
What kind of bow can’t be tied? A rainbow!
St Patrick’s Day has been observed by the Irish as a religious holiday for more than 1,000 years.
How is a good friend like a four-leaf clover? They’re hard to find!
Children actually grow faster in the spring than during other times of the year.
On this day, people usually eat corned beef and cabbage, and they wear green. However, corned beef is an English dish and not Irish.
Why did the leprechaun walk out of the house? He wanted to sit on the Paddy O’!
According to legend leprechauns dance the Irish jig so much they wear out their shoes.
Tornadoes are the most common in spring.
Why do leprechauns recycle? They like to go green!

Ketchup was used as medicine in the 1830's.
For each minute of the day, 1 billion tons of rain falls on the earth.
There is a butterfly in Africa with enough poison in its body to kill 6 cats.
Justin Timberlake had a company figure out his concerts' carbon footprints and paid to have trees and bushes planted in those cities to offset carbon impact during his nationwide tour.
Apples come from the same family as roses.
Sharks were around long before dinosaurs.
Scientists have actually performed brain surgery on cockroaches.
You can grow a bonsai tree that will actually fruit miniature oranges.

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
Boston has the worst drivers out of the nation's 200 largest cities. Kansas City has the best drivers.
A snail can sleep for three years.
There's an island full of wild monkeys off the coast of South Carolina called Morgan Island, and it's not open to humans.