In 1945, the first "floating ice cream parlor" was built for sailors in the western Pacific. This "floating ice cream parlour" could produce ten gallons of ice cream every seven seconds. | A dog's sense of smell is 1,000 times more sensitive than a humans. | Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the man who designed the Eiffel Tower, also designed the inner structure of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour. | The only bird that can swim and not fly is a penguin. | In 1878, the first telephone book ever issued contained only 50 names.

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