Pepper was sold as individual grains during the Elizabethan times. The guards at the London docks had to sew up their pockets so they would not steal any of the pepper.

A queen bee can lay 800-1,500 eggs per day.

The largest living structure on Earth is the Great Barrier Reef. Found in Australia, it is over 2000 kilometres long.

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