Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.

The Grammy Awards were introduced to counter the threat of rock music. In the late 1950s, a group of record executives were alarmed by the explosive success of rock 'n roll, considering it a threat to "quality" music.

There is a certain species of kangaroo that is only 2.5 centimetres long when it is born.

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