After the "Popeye" comic strip was launched in 1931, spinach consumption went up by thirty-three percent in the United States.

The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m.

2,000 pounds of space dust and other space debris fall on the Earth every day.

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