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DEFINITION: (noun) A semi-solid mixture of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum; used in medicinal ointments and for lubrication. SYNONYMS: mineral jelly, petroleum jelly. USAGE: While her friends bought expensive designer lip balms, she stuck with her grandmother's remedy, a big jar of petrolatum.

McCartney is a singer and songwriter who, together with John Lennon, founded the Beatles. The group defined a musical genre and helped jump-start a cultural revolution among young people in the 1960s. McCartney is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most successful composer in popular music history. He is credited with a record twenty-nine US number one singles. How many of these were with the Beatles?

The Battle of Waterloo was Napoleon Bonaparte's last battle. After his exile to Elba, he had reinstalled himself on the throne of France for one hundred days. During this time, Prussian, Russian, Austrian, and British forces, commanded by the United Kingdom's Duke of Wellington and Prussia's Gebhard von Blücher, converged on him with the intention of ending Napoleon's rule. What happened at the battle?

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

The four-leaf clover is a rare mutation of the common three-leaf clover. It is generally considered an omen of good luck. It has been estimated that there are approximately 10,000 three-leaf clovers for every four-leaf clover. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, what is the largest number of leaves ever found on one clover?

Scientists have created a hybrid butterfly by interbreeding two different species in a lab. They believe their process mimics one that actually occurred in nature, as the distinctive red and yellow hybrid is nearly identical to a wild species of butterfly in Colombia known as Heliconius heurippa. The scientific achievement, which is reported in the journal Nature, suggests animal hybrids could be more common than previously thought.