In a day 34,000 children die every day from causes that are related to poverty and hunger.

The first drug to be sold in the form of a tablet is Aspirin.

Alaska is the western-most AND eastern-most state of the United States. Its islands stretch so far they actually cross the 180th meridian - the global dividing line between "east" and "west".

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