The size of a red blood cell is 708 microns. This is equivalent to one millionth of a meter.

Tycho Brahe, a 16th century astronomer, lost his nose in a duel with one of his students over a mathematical computation. He wore a silver replacement nose for the rest of his life.

A single coffee tree produces only about a pound of coffee beans per year.

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