In 1958, the United States Coast Guard off western Greenland measured the tallest known iceberg at five hundred and fifty feet.

When blue whales are first born, they gain as much as 200 pounds a day while they are calves.

In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.

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