Even though the rose does not bear any fruit, the rose hips have more Vitamin C than most vegetables and fruits.

Mozart wrote the nursery rhyme 'twinkle, twinkle, little star' at the age of 5.

In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.

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