In 1982, Larry Walters tied 24 weather balloons to his lawn chair in Los Angeles and climbed to an altitude of 16,000 feet.

An elephant in the wild can eat anywhere from 100 - 1000 pounds of vegetation in a 16 hour period.

The word "Denim" comes from the French phrase "serge de Nimes" which is a fabric made in a town located in southern France.

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