Nerve cells can travel as fast as 120 metres per second.

It is estimated that by the end of 2000, there has been 142,600 tonnes of gold mined in the world.

Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes.

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