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Astronauts actually get taller when in space. The softest known mineral is talc. A compass needle does not point directly north. The strike note of the Liberty Bell is E flat. Flightless birds, like the penguin, could once fly. Americans throw away 44 million newspapers a day. 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. Aichmophobia is the fear of needles and pointed objects. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. Rice is the staple food for 50% of the worlds population. reload more facts