Each year all of the Hostess bakeries combined bake 500 million Twinkies a year. (A twinkie is a sponge cake with a creamy filling.).

The oldest bird on record was Cocky, a cockatoo, who died in the London Zoo at the age of 82.

You can sail all the way around the world at latitude 60 degrees south.

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