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Fast facts: A bee has five eyes: two large compound eyes on either side of its head, and three ocelli (primitive eyes) on top of its head to detect light intensity. A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites. An adult female ladybug will eat about 300 medium-size aphids before it lays eggs. About three to 10 aphids are eaten for each egg the beetle lays. More than 5,000 aphids may be eaten by a single adult in its lifetime. Assuming all the offspring survived, 190,000,000,000,000,000,000 flies could be produced in four months by the offspring of a single pair of flies. Australia is home to 350 different kinds of butterflies. Queen termites may live for as many as 50 years. Sixty-two degrees Fahrenheit is the minimum temperature required to allow a grasshopper to hop.

 

On this date: In 1782, the Netherlands recognized the United States as a country. In 1874, the barracks on Alcatraz Island were destroyed by a fire. In 1945, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel" opened on Broadway. In 1967, the Beatles signed a contract to stay together for 10 years. Of course, they didn't make it. In 1971, Russia launched its first Salyut space station. In 1979, the FCC raided and shut down the pirate radio station WFAT in Brooklyn, N.Y. In 1986, Michael Spinks beat Larry Holmes for the heavyweight boxing title.

 

Quotable... "I heard something like the engine of a plane dying out, and then I heard a terrible explosion. I certainly thought of the September attacks in the United States. It really looked like the same thing." -Raffaele Taccogna, a bartender at the Atlantic Hotel nearby a skyscraper in Milan, Italy, when a flaming plane crashed into it -a freak accident.