The average stay for a prisoner on Alcatraz, when it was used as a prison, was five years.

Washing machines use anywhere from 40 to 200 litres of water per load.

The first fossilized specimen of Australopithecus afarenisis was named Lucy after the paleontologists' favorite song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," by the Beatles.

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