Annually 17 tons of gold is used to make wedding rings in the United States.

The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m.

There is a muppet named Kami that appears on the South African version of the T.V. show "Sesame Street" that is HIV-positive.

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