French author Thomas-Alexander Dumas (The Three Musketeers) is the highest ranking black military official in Europe to date.

Kermit the Frog was named after Kermit Scott, a childhood friend of creator Jim Henson, who became a professor of philosophy at Purdue University.

A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.

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