Whales support many different types of life. Several creatures, such as barnacles and sea lice, attach themselves to the skin of whales and live there.

The name of the popular search engine 'Google' came from a misspelling of the word 'googol', which is a very, very large number (the number one followed by one hundred zeros to be exact).

Britain was the first country to register a patent on polyester.

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