The loudest insect in the world is the male cicadas, which are like crickets. When they rub their abdomens, the sound made can be heard from 1300 feet.

In the Sahara Desert, there is a town named Tidikelt, which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years.

A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.

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