The origin of apples traces back to the Middle East over 4,000 years ago.

The world record for the number of body piercings on one individual is 702, which is held by Canadian Brent Moffat.

Plutonium - first weighed on August 20th, 1942, by University of Chicago scientists Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues - was the first man-made element.

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