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An echidna’s tongue can be 6 inches long

The United States has the highest proportion of males circumcised for non-religious reasons. A whopping 75 percent of non-Jewish, non-Muslim American men are circumcised. Compare that to Canada, where only 30% are. In the U.K. it's 20 percent; in Australia it's only 6 percent

England once had a Prime Minister who was only 24 years old. He was William Pitt, elected in 1783

It is against the law in Connecticut for a man to write love letters to a girl whose mother or father has forbidden the relationship

A sea-hare can lay 40,000 eggs a minute

Igor Sikorsky first achieved international recognition in 1913 when he was just 14 when he designed and flew the first multimotor airplane. Igor began developing the helicopter at the age of 19

The world's largest lithograph measured 11.25 m (36.9 ft) by 1.25 m (4.1 ft). It was constructed by Mario Derra (Germany) in a chalk quarry in Worms (Germany) in August 2002

Babies that are exposed to cats and dogs in their first year of life have a lower chance of developing allergies when they grow older

Merrill Ashley holds the record for the long performance career with the New York City Ballet, at thirty years

It takes up to four hours of vigorous sex to burn off the calories in one slice of pizza