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Indonesia is made up of more than 17,000 islands. The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that has 3 syllables (all others have 1). A species of moth has the best hearing in the world. 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. Water can boil and freeze at the same time. There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year. The cheetah is the only cat that can't retract it's claws. The makers of the board game Monopoly print over 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money every year. A third of Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it. Venus is the only planet to rotate clockwise. reload more facts