Every day the human stomach produces about 2 liters of hydrochloric acid.

In July 1874, a swarm of Rocky Mountain locusts flew over Nebraska covering an area estimated at 198,600 square miles. It is estimated that the swarm contained about 12.5 trillion insects. These insects became extinct thirty years later.

In 1778, fashionable women of Paris never went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod attached to their hats.

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