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.

96% of candles that are purchased are by women.

The platypus uses its bill to find animals that it feeds on. Its bill can sense the tiny electric fields that their preys emit.

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