Actress Michelle Pfeiffer was the first choice to play Clarice Starling in the movie "Silence of the Lambs." She turned down the role because she found it too scary.

The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Almbert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.

Snakes are true carnivores as they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.

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