Micro-organisms have been brought back to life after being frozen in perma-frost for three million years.

The average annual low for South pole is -61, compared with -3 at the North pole. The lowest temperature ever recorded at the South Pole is -117, while the record at the North Pole is -59.

President William Taft weighed over 300 lbs and once got stuck in the white house bathtub.

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