It would take 29 million years for a car travelling 100 miles per hour to reach the nearest star.

The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus – In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.

In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first (and only) home run.

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