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The telescope on Mount Palomar, California, can see a distance of 7,038,835,200,000,000,000,000 miles.

Stewardesses is one of the longest words typed with only the left hand

One beaver can cut down as many as 216 trees per year.

The oldest bird on record was Cocky, a cockatoo, who died in the London Zoo at the age of 82

Some Ribbon worm will eat themselves if they cannot find food. This type of worm can still survive after eating up to 95% of its body weight

Audrey Hepburn's real name was Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston.

The average speed for a migrating duck is fifty miles per hour.

More people are afraid of open spaces (kenophobia) than of tight spaces (claustrophobia).

Sound carries so well in the Arctic that on a calm day, a conversation can be heard from 1.8 miles away.

There are 132 rooms in the US White House.

One quarter of the bones in the human body is in the feet

At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal.

Dogs in New York, USA, produce 18 million kilograms (40 million pounds) of faeces a year. Luckily, New Yorkers have to clear up after their dogs.

After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again.

The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers.

The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.

Astronaut John Glenn ate the first meal in space when he ate pureed applesauce squeezed from a tube aboard Friendship 7 in 1962.

The placement of a donkey's eyes in its'heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.

A cockroach can live for a week after its head is cut off.

The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle, is the Picayune Intellegence.

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