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  • The average pool cue is 1.4m (4.75ft) long.

  • There are only 4 words in the English language which end in 'dous' (they are: hazardous, horrendous, stupendous and tremendous).

  • There are 22 stars in the Paramount studios logo.

  • A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

  • The most commonly used letter in the alphabet is E.

  • All pilots on international flights identify themselves in English regardless of their country of origin.

  • The diameter of the sun is 1,390,000km (865,000 miles).

  • The Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets.

  • The US is the world's largest consumer of coffee.

  • 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.

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