Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes.

There are 293 steps to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."

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