The average stay for a prisoner on Alcatraz, when it was used as a prison, was five years.

Estuarine crocodiles are the biggest of all 26 species of the crocodilian family.

On December 23, 1947, Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., held a secret demonstration of the transistor which marked the foundation of modern electronics.

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