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Applesauce was the first food eaten in space by astronauts. 52% of Americans drink coffee. Many mammals, including cats and dogs, walk on their toes in contrast to humans, who walk on the soles of their feet. Horses can't vomit. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters. While you sleep you can't smell anything, even really, really bad or potent smells. The longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds. The life span of a house fly is between 10 to 25 days. The familiar smell of rain is called petrichor. Much of the work done by Leibniz and Newton is based on theories by French philosopher Rene Descartes. As well as his many contributions to philosophy, Descartes also had a huge impact on mathematics, creating analytical geometry, developing a system that describes geometry using algebra, contributing to optics and much more. reload more facts