The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

There are over 500 different types of bananas.

The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. More than 2 billion pencils are manufactured each year in the United States. If these were laid end to end they would circle the world nine times.

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