The scarlet tanager, a songbird native to Illinois, can eat as many as 2,100 gypsy-moth caterpillars in one hour.

One of the Bond girls in the James Bond movie, "For Your Eyes Only," used to be a man.

The U.S. is the largest country named after a real person (Amerigo Vespucci).

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