Some silkworms can spin cocoons that contain more than two miles of silk.

Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.

La Paz, Bolivia has an average annual temperature below 50 degrees Fahrenheit. However, it has never recorded a zero-degree temperature. Same for Stanley, Falkland Islands and Punta Arenas, Chile.

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