In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.

It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.

The most valuable painting made by a female artist is "In the Box," painted by Mary Cassatt. It was sold for $3.67 million at Christies in New York City.

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