In July 1874, a swarm of Rocky Mountain locusts flew over Nebraska covering an area estimated at 198,600 square miles. It is estimated that the swarm contained about 12.5 trillion insects. These insects became extinct thirty years later.

The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.

The scene where Indiana Jones shoots the swordsman in Raider's of the Lost Ark was Harrison Ford's idea so that he could take a bathroom break.

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