Hawaiis Mount Waialeale is the wettest place in the world - it rains throughout the year and about 460 inches per annum.

When the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, received an alarming number of threatening letters, soon after her husband became President at the height of the Depression, the Secret Service insisted that she carry a pistol in her purse.

The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!

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