Fact #1: In 1978, the first hamster wheel was patented by an American inventor who was clearly a genius or a hamster.
Fact #2: Hamsters can survive up to 2 years on a wheel, but only if they're not secretly plotting against their human overlords.
Fact #3: The world's fastest hamster on a wheel was a hamster named 'Squeaky' who set the record in 2014 with a blistering 2,500 revolutions per minute. Squeaky is now retired and living the quiet life in a cage of velvet.
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