A honey bee strokes its wings about 11,500 times a minute.

A common custom in Spain is to eat one grape for each of the last 12 seconds of every year for good luck.

Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Halley's Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Halley's Comet was in view again.

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