A grasshopper needs a minimum temperature of 62 * F in order to be able to hop.

On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.

Two objects have struck the earth with enough force to destroy a whole city. Each object, one in 1908 and again in 1947, struck regions of Siberia. Not one human being was hurt either time.

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