A dog by the name of Laika was launched into space aboard the Russian spacecraft Sputnik 2 in 1957.

The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. More than 2 billion pencils are manufactured each year in the United States. If these were laid end to end they would circle the world nine times.

If you are right handed, you will tend to chew food on your right side. If you are left handed, you likely to chew food on your left side.

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