A top freestyle swimmer achieves a speed of only 4 miles per hour. Fish, in contrast, have been clocked at 68 mph.

There are over 1,000,000 swimming pools in Florida, eventhough the ocean is no farther than 80 miles away.

Hawaii is the only U.S. state never to report a temperature of zero degrees F or below.

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