When blue whales are first born, they gain as much as 200 pounds a day while they are calves.

Two very popular and common objects have the same function, but one has thousands of moving parts, while the other has absolutely no moving parts - an hourglass and a sundial.

5% of the world population lives in the US but 22% of the world's prisons population are held in the US.

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