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No.
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Interesting Fact
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8
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The colossal squid has the largest eyes of any animal.
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189
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The word "thug" is derived from the Hindi word "thuggee". The Thuggees were gangs of robbers in India who
strangled and killed unsuspecting travelers in service to the goddess Kali.
However, some modern scholars dispute whether Thuggees really existed.
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259
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According to the latest estimates, there are slightly more bacteria cells in your body than human cells.
However, because human cells are much larger, all the bacteria only weighs 0.2 kilograms.
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329
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China exports three times as much to the United States as it imports. In 2019, the total difference was over $320 billion.
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307
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After the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, authorities placed a 30 kilometer exclusion zone around the former power plant.
The results have been surprising. Wildlife is thriving within the exclusion zone - in effect creating one of Europe's
largest wildlife preserves. Animals living in the exclusion zone suffer no discernible harm from the radiation,
and benefit greatly from the near lack of human presence.
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114
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Cook Monument marks the spot where the famous British explorer
James Cook was killed by native Hawaiians. Today, it is a popular snorkeling location.
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266
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China only has one time zone. This means that the sun can rise 3 hours earlier
in the eastern part of the country than in the west.
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303
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The word "soccer" was invented in England as a shortening of "association football".
Until recent decades, British people used the words soccer and football interchangeably.
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160
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Cunningham's law states that the best way to get the right answer on the internet
is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.
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232
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The Mekong river catfish can reach weights of up to 350 kilograms.
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361
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The city of Saint Pierre, on the island of Martinique, was once called "The Paris of the Caribbean". It was completely
destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Pelée in 1902. Of the 28,000 people in the town at the time, only 2 survived.
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345
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The effects of wealth disparity can last for centuries, In the year 1066, the Normans conquered England and
placed themselves on top of the social hierarchy. More than 900 years later, people with Norman
last names are still about 10% wealthier than their Anglo-Saxon counterparts.
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126
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In her old age, Queen Elizabeth I was praised for her beauty despite
missing several teeth and being half bald due to smallpox.
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53
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The year 1900 was not a leap year. Years divisible by 100 are not leap years unless they are also divisible by 400.
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66
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The Hughes H-4 Hercules, nicknamed the Spruce Goose, is the largest aircraft ever to fly. Due to wartime restrictions
on the use of metal, it was made of wood. But despite its name, it was made mostly of birch, not spruce.
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337
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Aluminium is the most common metal in the Earth's crust. But aluminium used to be very difficult to extract
from aluminium ore. This made it extremely expensive. In the mid-1800s, ingots of aluminium sold for
$550 a pound - about twice the price of gold.
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1
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Technically, Manila is not the most populous city in the Philippines.
The neighboring municipality of Quezon City has a higher population.
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241
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It is possible to tell if a piece of steel was made before the 1940s. This is because there is a tiny amount of
background radiation in the air from the testing of atomic bombs. Any steel made after 1945 has this signature inside it.
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226
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France's longest land border is with Brazil.
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231
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Toxoplasma gondii is a peculiar parasite. It can only reproduce inside a cat.
However, it can also infect rodents. When a rodent is infected, its behavior changes.
It becomes less averse to the small of cat urine and therefore more likely to be eaten by a cat.
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