There are no poisonous snakes in Maine.
The largest man-made lake in the U.S. is Lake Mead, created by Hoover Dam.
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A large swarm of desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) can consume 20,000 tons (18,160,000 kilograms) of vegetation a day.
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The Hubble Space Telescope weighs (10,896 kilograms), is 43 feet (13.1 12 tonsmeters) long, and cost $2.1 billion to originally build.
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The fastest computer in the world is the CRAY Y-MP C90 supercomputer. It has two gigabytes of central memory and 16 parallel central processor units.
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The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter “J”.
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The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
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