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11-11-23, 07:03 AM | #2986 |
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Australia is the largest island and the smallest continent of the world. It only contains one country.
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11-11-23, 10:42 AM | #2987 |
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Ben Franklin’s formal education ended at 10 years old.
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11-11-23, 12:00 PM | #2988 |
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Antarctica is the coldest, windiest, and least populated continent in the world. It also is the only continent that contains no countries.
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11-11-23, 09:27 PM | #2989 |
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Sloths may be the only mammals that don’t fart.
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11-12-23, 04:56 AM | #2990 |
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The largest seed in the world is the double coconut. It measures up to 1.6 feet (50 cm) around the middle.
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11-12-23, 11:53 AM | #2991 |
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Bones found at Seymour Island indicate that, 37 to 40 million years ago, penguins stood at a formidable 6 feet tall and weighed 250 pounds.
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11-12-23, 12:36 PM | #2992 |
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There were frozen seeds found in Canada, thought to be over ten thousand years old, and when they were defrosted and planted, they still grew.
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11-13-23, 01:10 PM | #2993 |
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If a seed is planted upside down, it will still grow right side up because seeds can sense gravity.
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11-13-23, 04:40 PM | #2994 |
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Astronauts, in orbit, can't burp
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11-14-23, 05:49 AM | #2995 |
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Around the Hudson Bay in Quebec, Canada, there is less gravity than on most of the other parts of Earth.
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11-14-23, 04:33 PM | #2996 |
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The sound of the roaring lion over the MGM logo is actually a tiger.
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11-15-23, 07:59 AM | #2997 |
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In the movie Apollo 13, the zero-gravity scenes are real. The crew filmed about four hours of material in 612 parabola flights.
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11-15-23, 01:14 PM | #2998 |
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Lake Hillier in Australia is nearly as salty as the Dead Sea. Scientists suspect that some salt-loving bacteria (chiefly Salinibacter ruber) and algae give the lake its pink hue.
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11-15-23, 01:26 PM | #2999 |
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The reason why NASA hasn’t brought any birds to space is because birds need gravity to swallow.
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11-15-23, 04:35 PM | #3000 | |
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No, but the Russians did in 1990 aboard the MIR space station
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