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It can take a deep-sea clam up to 100 years to reach 0.3 inches (8 millimeters) in length. The clam is among the slowest growing, yet longest living species on the planet.

A newly hatched crocodile is three times as large as the egg from which it has emerged.

In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.

There is about one quarter-pound of salt in every gallon of seawater.

The air is so polluted in Cubato, Brazil, no birds or insects remain, most trees are blackened stumps, and its mayor reportedly refuses to live there.

Three hundred and fourteen acres of trees are used to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of the New York Times. There are nearly 63,000 trees in the 314 acres.

The angle between the main branched of a tree and its trunk remains constant in each species – and this same angle is found between the principal vein of the tree's leaves and all its subsidiary branching veins.

The names of some cities in the United States are the names of other U.S. states. These include Nevada in Missouri, California Maryland, Louisiana in Missouri, Oregon in Wisconsin, Kansas in Oklahoma, Wyoming in Ohio, Michigan in North Dakota, Delaware in Arkansas, and Indiana in Pennsylvania.

The odd zigzag in the North Carolina-South Carolina state line, just south of Charlotte, resulted when boundary commissioners altered the line in 1772 to avoid splitting the Catawba Indians between the two British colonies.

The state flower of Massachusetts is the mayflower.

The state of Pennsylvania can lay claim to some dubious firsts. The first woman governor. The zipper. Toilet paper. And the autogiro, ancestor to the helicopter.

The streets of Victor, Colorado, once a gold rush town, are paved with low-grade gold.

The University of Alaska covers four time zones.

The world's shortest river--the D River in Oregon--is only 121 feet long.

At least 10,000 years old, the Creosote bush in California’s Mojave Desert is the oldest known living thing in the world.