In its ancient form, the carrot was purple, not orange.

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.

If one spells out numbers, they would have to count to One Thousand before coming across the letter "A".

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