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• Komodo dragons, the world's biggest lizards, grow up to 10 feet long. They provided the inspiration for the first King Kong movie.
• About one in four Internet users have typed their own names into a search engine to see what information about them is on the Web.
• The Eden Project in Cornwall, Great Britain, houses the largest greenhouse in the world.
• In England, people have built tunnels under the roads for hedgehogs to use, so that they won't be hit by cars.
• If you could put all life on Earth on a scale all at once, insects would make up about 80% of the weight.
• BankAmericard, which became Visa, issued the first bank credit card in 1959. Mastercard appeared in 1966.
• Add 39 to the number of cricket chirps you hear in 15 seconds, and get the Fahrenheit temperature outdoors within a couple of degrees.
• Evergreen and deciduous trees have been known to change, one into the other, when transplanted to a new climate.
• “One potato, two potato, three potato, four,” the children’s counting-rhyme, originated in Canada around 1885.
• Eucalyptus leaves are poisonous for most animals, but koalas are able to eat them.