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There is no sound in space. Love carrots? Don't eat too many or you will turn orange. Sea otters hold each other's paws while sleeping so they don't drift apart. A species of moth has the best hearing in the world. The name of the popular search engine 'Google' came from a misspelling of the word 'googol', which is a very large number (the number one followed by one hundred zeros to be exact). Alan Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist who cracked German ciphers (codes) in the Second World War, contributed to mathematical logic and played an important role in the development of algorithms, artificial intelligence and the modern computer. On the average there are 8 peas in a pod. One acre of peanuts will make about 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches. The average human drinks over 60,566 litres (16,000 gallons) of water in a lifetime. Fish can cough. reload more facts