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  • The Olympic flag was designed in 1913.

  • The Sun has a diameter of 1,390,176km (864,000miles).

  • The Giant Pacific Octopus can squeeze its entire body through a hole the size of its beak.

  • 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.

  • A compass needle does not point directly north.

  • It is illegal to run out of gas in Youngstown, Ohio.

  • You burn more calories sleeping than watching TV.

  • The tallest mammal is the giraffe.

  • The only one-syllabled U.S. state is Maine.

  • The grapefruit gets its name from the way it grows in clusters like grapes on a vine.

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