Hawaiis Mount Waialeale is the wettest place in the world - it rains throughout the year and about 460 inches per annum.

On April 4, 1974, John Massis of Belgium pulled two New York Long Island railroad passenger cars totaling 80 tons with a thick rope, with a small bit attached, using only his teeth.

There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

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