A swordfish can live as long as 25 years and weigh up to 1,200 pounds.

Scientists say that babies that are breastfed are more likely to be slimmer as adults than those that are not breastfed.

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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