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#The billionth digit of Pi is 9.

#Humans can survive underwater. But not for very long.

#A nanosecond lasts one billionth of a second.

#Honey does not spoil.

#The atomic weight of Germanium is seven two point six four.

#An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

#Rats cannot throw up.

#Iguanas can stay underwater for twenty-eight point seven minutes.

#The moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days.

#A gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds.

#According to Norse legend, thunder god Thor's chariot was pulled across the sky by two goats.

#Tungsten has the highest melting point of any metal, at 3,410 degrees Celsius.

#Gently cleaning the tongue twice a day is the most effective way to fight bad breath.

#The Tariff Act of 1789, established to protect domestic manufacture, was the second statute ever enacted by the United States government.

#The value of Pi is the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter in Euclidean space.

#The Mexican-American War ended in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

#In 1879, Sandford Fleming first proposed the adoption of worldwide standardized time zones at the Royal Canadian Institute.

#Marie Curie invented the theory of radioactivity, the treatment of radioactivity, and dying of radioactivity.

#At the end of The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, Konstantin kills himself.

#If you have trouble with simple counting, use the following mnemonic device: one comes before two comes before 60 comes after 12 comes before six trillion comes after 504. This will make your earlier counting difficulties seem like no big deal.

#Hot water freezes quicker than cold water.<ref>{{W|Mpemba effect}}</ref>