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There are over 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building. The Eiffel Tower is over 300m (984 ft) tall. August has the highest percentage of births. 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. The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English alphabet. A horse's canter is a 3-beat gait. After the third beat all three legs are off the ground. A spider's silk is stronger than steel. Clothes dried outside smell better because of a process called photolysis (sunlight breaks down compounds that cause odor). The fire signs are Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius. The first train reached a top speed of only 8 kmh (5 mph). reload more facts