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The Moon’s gravity is what causes the tides on Earth.
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The Milky Way galaxy holds between 100 and 400 billion stars.
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Climate change is melting glaciers, which could raise sea levels by up to 82 feet.
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Camels store fat, not water, in their humps. This helps keep them cooler in the desert.
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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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Canada has the longest coastline in the world, stretching over 202,000 kilometers.
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Potatoes were the first food grown in space.
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Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren’t! Botanically, bananas fit the definition of a berry, while strawberries do not because of how their seeds grow on the outside.
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Africa is the only continent in all four hemispheres of the Earth.
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Bamboo can grow up to 91 centimeters (35 inches) in a single day.
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Did you know that octopuses have three hearts? Two pump blood through the gills, while the third pumps it through the body.
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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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The dot over the letters “i” and “j” is called a tittle.
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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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Japan has one vending machine for every 40 people.
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The first computer mouse was made of wood.
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There is a language in Mexico called Ayapaneco that is spoken by only two people.
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The Amazon rainforest produces 20% of the world’s oxygen.
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There are 195 countries in the world today.
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A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus because it rotates very slowly.
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A teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh 6 billion tons because it is incredibly dense.
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The word "alphabet" comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet: alpha and beta.
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Russia is the largest country in the world by land area.
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The Sun is so massive that more than one million Earths could fit inside it.
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Did you know that the ocean covers more than 70% of the Earth's surface?
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The word “bookkeeper” has three consecutive double letters.
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You shed about eight pounds of dead skin every year, which becomes part of the dust in your home.
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The first computer was invented in the 19th century by Charles Babbage.
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The first website ever created is still online.
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Sunsets on Mars are blue instead of red!
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Canada has the longest coastline in the world, stretching over 202,000 kilometers.
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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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The first email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson.
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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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The shortest war in history lasted only 38 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.
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The longest word in English is 189,819 letters long and is the chemical name for the protein Titin.
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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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Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, while the universe is about 13.5 billion years old.
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Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system, with surface temperatures around 450°C.
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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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Mount Everest grows about 4 millimeters higher every year due to tectonic activity.
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The world’s first smartphone was released in 1994.
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In an average lifetime, a person produces enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
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The Sahara Desert is the largest hot desert in the world.
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Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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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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You are born with about 300 bones, but as you grow, some fuse together so adults have only 206 bones.
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Giraffes have the same number of neck bones as humans – seven!
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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 most commonly spoken language in the world is Mandarin Chinese.
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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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There are about 7,000 languages spoken in the world today.
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A group of flamingos is called a “flamboyance.”
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Koalas sleep up to 22 hours a day to conserve energy.
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The first computer mouse was made of wood.
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Dolphins can shut off half of their brain while sleeping so they can watch for predators.
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Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found edible honey in ancient Egyptian tombs!
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The Amazon River is the second longest river in the world, after the Nile.
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A cluster of bananas is called a hand; a single banana is called a finger.
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Your stomach acid is so strong it could dissolve metal, but your stomach lining protects you!
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Peanuts are not nuts; they are legumes.
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Lemons float in water, but limes sink because limes are denser.
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Cacti can store hundreds of gallons of water in their stems.
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The only word in English that ends with “mt” is “dreamt”.
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Elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump!
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A giraffe’s tongue is so long that it can even lick its ears.
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Stars come in different sizes and colors, from small red dwarfs to huge blue giants.
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The Olympic Games originated in ancient Greece over 2,700 years ago.
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3D printing was invented in the 1980s and can now print food and even organs.
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The first-ever Ferris wheel was built in Chicago for the 1893 World’s Fair.
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Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not!
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Carrots were originally purple, not orange.
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Ethiopia runs on its own calendar with 13 months a year
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Only female mosquitoes bite humans; male mosquitoes drink flower nectar.
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Japan has one vending machine for every 40 people, selling everything from drinks to ice cream.
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The word “robot” comes from a Czech word meaning “forced labor”.
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Cows and horses can sleep while standing up.
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The word “alphabet” comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet: alpha and beta.
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Your mouth produces about one liter of saliva each day!
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Carrots were originally purple before orange carrots became popular.
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Your body has over 100,000 miles of blood vessels.
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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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The first-ever Ferris wheel was built in Chicago for the 1893 World’s Fair.
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Honey never spoils; archaeologists have found edible honey in ancient Egyptian tombs.
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Lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.
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Wild seals are the only animals on the planet that can clap.
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Venus flytraps can snap shut in less than a second to catch prey.
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Ancient Egyptians used moldy bread to help heal wounds.
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Your tongue print is unique, just like your fingerprints.
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The shortest war in history lasted only 38 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896.
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Mount Everest grows about 4 millimeters higher every year due to tectonic activity.
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The world’s oldest known “your mom” joke is over 3,500 years old.
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Your intestines are about 25 feet long from end to end.
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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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Australia is both a country and a continent.
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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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There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
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The Great Wall of China is over 13,000 miles long.
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The smallest bones in your body are inside your ear and could all fit on a penny.
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On Mars, sunsets appear blue instead of red.
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