Walter Hunt patented the safety pin in 1849. He later sold the patent rights for only $400.

The average annual low for South pole is -61, compared with -3 at the North pole. The lowest temperature ever recorded at the South Pole is -117, while the record at the North Pole is -59.

From 1939 to 1942, there was an undersea post office in the Bahamas.

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