The male platypus has poisonous spurs on its legs.

Trees that are near street lights do not shed their leaves as fast as a tree that is in the country.

The day after President George W. Bush was reelected in 2004, Canada's main immigration website had 115,000 visitors. Before Bush's re-election, this site averaged about 20,000 visitors each day.

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