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

Half the foods eaten throughout the world today were developed by farmers in the Andes Mountains (including potatoes, maize, sweet potatoes, squash, all varieties of beans, peanuts, manioc, papayas, strawberries, mulberries and many others).

'K' was chosen to stand for a strikeout in baseball because 'S' was being used to denote a sacrifice.

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