In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile Services(two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number theotherchannel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, butnochannel 1.

The hippopotamus has the capability to remain underwater for as long as twenty-five minutes.

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

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