In 1955, only 330 Volkswagen Beetle's were sold at a price of $1800 each in the United States.

The Nile river is 6,690 kilometers long.

The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. More than 2 billion pencils are manufactured each year in the United States. If these were laid end to end they would circle the world nine times.

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