The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Artic to Mexico and back every year.

The pound key (#) on the keyboard is called an octothorpe.

In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.

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