Female elephants are called cows. They start to have calves when they are about 12 years old and they are pregnant for 22 months.

The first words that Thomas A. Edison spoke into the phonograph were, "Mary had a little lamb."

Termites do more damage in the U.S. ever year than all the fires, storms and earthquakes combined. They do an average of $750 million in damage annually.

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