Benjamin Franklin was the 15th child of a Boston soap maker.

A dragonfly eats, on average, 300 mosquitoes per day.

An inch-thick rope of spider's silk can withstand up to 140,000 pounds of pressure.

In 1968, there were 5 million-dollar lottery winners who did not claim their prize.

A horse can look forward with one eye and backwards with the other.

 

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