Even though it is nearly twice as far away from the Sun as Mercury, Venus is by far the hottest planet.

Every single hamster in the United States today comes from a single litter captured in Syria in 1930.

Google receives more than 200 million search queries a day, more than half of which come from outside the United States. Peak traffic hours to google.com are between 6 a.m. and noon PST, when more than 2,000 search queries are answered a second.

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