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- The hummingbird is the only bird that can hover and fly straight up, down, or backward!
- The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.
- The Hundred Year War actually lasted 116 years (1337 to 1453).
- The ice cream soda was invented in 1874 by Robert Green. He was serving a mixture of syrup, sweet cream and carbonated water at a celebration in Philadelphia. He ran out of cream and substituted ice cream.
- The idiom "pillar of salt" means to have a stroke, or to become paralyzed and dead.
- The Iditarod Dogsled Race got its name from Iditarod, a small mining village along the race's route. The race commemorates an emergency operation in 1925 to get medical supplies to Nome, Alaska following a diphtheria epidemic.
- The Imperial torte, a square chocolate cake with five thin layers of almond paste, was created by a master pastry chef at the court of Emperor Franz Joseph (1830 1916).
- The infamous "Red Baron" was German World War I pilot Manfred von Richthofen.
- The infinite sign is called a lemniscate.
- The International Space Station weighs about 500 tons and is the same size as a football field.
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