The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.

Former basketball superstar Michael Jordan is the most recognized face in the world, more than the pope himself.

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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