- The Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie were named after the cop and the taxi driver from the movie “It's a Wonderful Life”.
- The Seven Hills of Rome are the Palatine (on which the original city was built), the Capitoline, Quirinal, Viminal, Esquiline, Caelian, and Aventine.
- The ship 'QE2' requires 25 litres to move 1 metre.
- The shortest French word with all five vowels is "oiseau" meaning bird.
- The Siberian larch accounts for more than 20% of all the worlds trees.
- The side of a hammer is a cheek.
- The slash character is called a virgule, or solidus. A URL uses slash characters, not back slash characters.
- The smallest bone in the body is the stirrup bone.
- The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia, at just 1.75 square miles.
- The smallest star found to date is a neutron star with a diameter of 59 km but a mass of 10 times that of our sun. This star is more commonly known as a black hole,
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