Each day the sun causes about one trillion tons of water to evaporate.

Tycho Brahe, a 16th century astronomer, lost his nose in a duel with one of his students over a mathematical computation. He wore a silver replacement nose for the rest of his life.

The year that read the same upside down was 1961. That won't happen again until 6009.

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