By law, information collected in a U.S. census must remain confidential for seventy-two years.

The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Almbert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.

In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first (and only) home run.

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