Of all the words Dr. Seuss made up in his storybooks, only one has stuck in the English vocabulary: grinch, which is refers to a killjoy -- and it took more than 20 years.

In September 2004, a Minnesota state trooper issued a speeding ticket to a motorcyclist who was clocked at 205 mph.

There is a two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand. The Kea likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.

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