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The first United States coast to coast airplane flight occurred in 1911 and took 49 days.
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| The first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn't have any pedals. People walked it along. |
| The Wright Brothers invented one of the first airplanes. It was called the Kitty Hawk. |
| The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English with just one pencil. |
| JOSEPH RECHENDORFER was the first person to think of putting a piece of rubber onto the top of a pencil which makes it real easy to rub out mistakes. |
| The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'. |
| A cheetah can run 76 kilometres per hour. |
| The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog. Frogs start their lives as 'eggs' often laid in or near fresh water. Frogs live on all continents except Antarctica. Frogs belong to a group of animals called amphibians. |
| A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't. |
| A rat can last longer without water than a camel can. |
| About 10% of the world's population is left-handed. |
| A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second. |
| The hippopotamus gives birth under water and nurses its young in the river as well, though the young hippos do come up periodically for air. |
| A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime. |
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