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 word vaccine comes from the Latin word "vacca," which means cow. This name was chosen beacause the first vaccination was derived from cowpox which was given to a boy.

It is estimated that in the Amazon Rainforest alone there between 20-40 million different species of animals, most of which are insects, as well as over 40,000 species of plant!

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