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Before 1913 parents could mail their kids to Grandma's through the postal service. Every minute about a billion tons of water falls on Earth. All of the cobble stones used to line the streets in New York were originally stones found in the hulls of Belgian ships ballast. That you can spell the word 'level' the same backwards. New York was once called New Amsterdam. Greek mathematician Euclid is often referred to as the 'Father of Geometry' for his revolutionary ideas and influential textbook called 'Elements' that he wrote around the year 300 BC. Mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes. The first US coast to coast aeroplane flight occurred in 1911 and took 49 days. Wild cobras can live up to 20 years old. The Chinese used fingerprints as a method of identification as far back as AD 700. reload more facts