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Australia has 10,685 beaches; you could visit a new beach every day for more than 29 years. A woodpecker can peck 20 times a second. The past tense for the English word 'dare' is 'durst'. The Cambodian alphabet has 74 letters. Chalk is made from tiny plankton fossils. Coffee is generally roasted between 204 - 218C (400 - 425F) (the longer the beans are roasted the darker the roast). The Amazon rainforest produces half the world's oxygen supply. The number 2 is the only number greater than zero that when added to or multiplied by itself gives you the same result (4). The equals sign (=) was invented in 1557 by a Welsh mathematician named Robert Recorde. There are over 600 windows on the Empire State Building. reload more facts