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There are more mobile phones than people on Earth.

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The only planet that rotates on its side is Uranus, with a tilt of about 98 degrees.

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On Mars, sunsets appear blue instead of red.

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Lemons float in water, but limes sink because limes are denser than lemons.

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Animals

Cats have 32 muscles in each ear, helping them hear even the slightest sounds.

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Bamboo can grow up to 91 cm (35 inches) in a single day.

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Butterflies taste with their feet.

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The Amazon River is the second longest river in the world, after the Nile.

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The first website ever created is still online.

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The first email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson.

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Dragonflies cannot walk even though they have six legs.

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Starfish can regenerate lost arms, and sometimes an entire new starfish can grow from a single arm.

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Ethiopia runs on its own calendar with 13 months a year

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Rainbows are actually full circles, but we usually only see half from the ground.

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There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth.

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A teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh 6 billion tons because it is incredibly dense.

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Human Body

Your body has over 100,000 miles of blood vessels.

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The dot over the letters “i” and “j” is called a tittle.

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Scotland has 421 words for snow.

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Animals

Cows and horses can sleep while standing up.

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The word “bookkeeper” has three consecutive double letters.

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Dolphins can shut off half of their brain while sleeping so they can watch for predators.

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There are about 7,000 languages spoken in the world today.

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The flowering plant titan arum, or “corpse flower,” can grow up to 12 feet tall and smells like rotting meat when it blooms.

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Nature

There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

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Human Body

Your mouth produces about one liter of saliva each day!

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Geography

Japan has one vending machine for every 40 people.

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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a giant storm that has been raging for over 400 years.

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Carrots were originally purple, not orange.

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Earth’s inner core is about 10,832 degrees Fahrenheit, hotter than the surface of the sun!

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Soil is full of life—a teaspoon of soil can hold up to 100 million bacteria.

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Butterflies taste with their feet to find out if a leaf is good to lay eggs on.

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Potatoes were the first food grown in space.

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Animals

A shrimp’s heart is located inside its head!

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Water can boil and freeze at the same time, a phenomenon called the triple point.

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The first computer mouse was made of wood.

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Did you know that one day on Venus is longer than one year on Venus? Venus rotates so slowly that it takes 243 Earth days to complete one rotation!

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The resurrection fern can survive being completely dried out for up to 100 years and come back to life when watered.

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History

The shortest war in history lasted only 38 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.

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The most expensive pizza in the world costs over $12,000 and takes 72 hours to make.

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Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, while the universe is about 13.5 billion years old.

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Human Body

Did you know that your nose can remember 50,000 different scents?

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Animals

Slugs have four noses, which help them smell and explore their surroundings.

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Samsung tests phone durability with a butt-shaped robot that wears jeans.

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The Great Wall of China is over 13,000 miles long.

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Ancient Egyptians used moldy bread to help heal wounds.

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Peanuts are not nuts; they are legumes.

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A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.

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The world’s oldest known “your mom” joke is over 3,500 years old.

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Human Body

You are born with about 300 bones, but as you grow, some fuse together so adults have only 206 bones.

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Climate change is melting glaciers, which could raise sea levels by up to 82 feet.

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History

The shortest war in history lasted only 38 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896.

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Space

A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus because it rotates very slowly.

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Geography

Australia is both a country and a continent.

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The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English alphabet.

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Animals

Giraffes have the same number of neck bones as humans – seven!

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Technology

The world’s first smartphone was released in 1994.

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The first-ever Ferris wheel was built in Chicago for the 1893 World’s Fair.

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Human Body

Your tongue print is unique, just like your fingerprints.

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Geography

Canada has the longest coastline in the world, stretching over 202,000 kilometers.

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The first video game ever created was called “Tennis for Two” in 1958.

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Human Body

In an average lifetime, a person produces enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.

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Scotland has 421 words for snow, including “sneesl” (to start raining or snowing) and “flinkdrinkin” (a light snow).

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Technology

The first computer mouse was made of wood.

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Some trees can live for thousands of years; the oldest is over 5,000 years old.

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The first computer was invented in the 19th century by Charles Babbage.

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Camels store fat, not water, in their humps. This helps keep them cooler in the desert.

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Carrots were originally purple before orange carrots became popular.

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Broccoli contains more protein than steak per calorie.

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Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system, with surface temperatures around 450°C.

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Animals

Elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump!

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Saturn is so light that it could float in water.

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A group of flamingos is called a “flamboyance.”

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A 40-year-old tree can store 1 ton of carbon dioxide, helping to clean the air.

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Honey never spoils; archaeologists have found edible honey in ancient Egyptian tombs.

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Samsung tests phone durability with a butt-shaped robot that wears jeans to make sure phones survive being sat on.

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Sunsets on Mars are blue instead of red!

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The most commonly spoken language in the world is Mandarin Chinese.

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Stars come in different sizes and colors, from small red dwarfs to huge blue giants.

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A cluster of bananas is called a hand; a single banana is called a finger.

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Octopuses can change both the color and texture of their skin to blend into their surroundings.

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Only female mosquitoes bite humans; male mosquitoes drink flower nectar.

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Koalas sleep up to 22 hours a day to conserve energy.

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Wild seals are the only animals on the planet that can clap.

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Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first moon landing than to the construction of the pyramids.

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There is a language in Mexico called Ayapaneco that is spoken by only two people.

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Human Body

You shed about eight pounds of dead skin every year, which becomes part of the dust in your home.

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The Sun is so massive that more than one million Earths could fit inside it.

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The Great Wall of China is over 13,000 miles long.

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3D printing was invented in the 1980s and can now print food and even organs.

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Jupiter is so big that over 1,300 Earths could fit inside it.

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Geography

Mount Everest grows about 4 millimeters higher every year due to tectonic activity.

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The first Olympic marathon was 24.85 miles long, not the 26.2 miles it is today.

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A starfish does not have a brain.

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The only word in English that ends with “mt” is “dreamt”.

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Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found edible honey in ancient Egyptian tombs!

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Animals

A giraffe’s tongue is so long that it can even lick its ears.

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Octopuses have three hearts! Two hearts pump blood to the gills, and one heart pumps it to the rest of the body. Plus, when an octopus swims, the heart that delivers blood to the body actually stops beating!

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Lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.

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The Milky Way galaxy holds between 100 and 400 billion stars.

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