The banjo is America’s only true native musical instrument. It was first developed in the South in the 1790s. The average person’s scalp has 100,000 hairs. The average porcupine has more than 30,000 quills. The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour. The average snail moves at a rate of approximately 0.000362005 miles per hour. The average speed for a migrating duck is fifty miles per hour. The bands on hats traces back to the custom on knights wearing their lady loves’ scarves around the helmet.
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