David McConnell started the California Perfume Company (CPC) in 1886. Today the company is known as Avon, which he named after his favorite playwright William Shakespeare, and Stratford on Avon.

The Welwitschia plant can live up to 1,000 years.

There are at least six universal facial expressions. They are: happiness, sadness, disgust, fear, anger and surprise.

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