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A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.

Venus takes about 243 Earth days to rotate once on its axis, but only about 225 Earth days to orbit the Sun. It also spins backwards compared to most planets, so on Venus the Sun would rise in the west and set in the east.

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Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.

Two hearts pump blood to the gills, while the third pumps it to the rest of the body. Their blood is blue because it uses a copper-based protein called hemocyanin instead of iron-based hemoglobin.

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…Bees also add an enzyme that produces small amounts of hydrogen peroxide, giving honey additional antimicrobial properties.

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Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still edible.

That happens because honey is extremely low in water and naturally acidic, which makes it a terrible environment for bacteria and microbes…

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A group of ferrets is known as a "business"

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American Bison can jump as high as 6 ft. in the air and run up to 40 MPH

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Honeybees stay warm in winter by generating heat with their muscles while vibrating their wings

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A person with "Puppy Pregnancy Syndrome" believes that puppies are conceived within their abdomen shortly after being bitten by a dog

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The ampersand (&) used to be the 27th letter of the English alphabet

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An estimated 0.2% of marriages in the United States are between individuals who are second cousins or closer - approx. 125,000 couples

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Julia Child helped develop shark repellant

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China has a Weather Modification Office

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Charles Dickens slept facing North. He thought it improved his writing

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The Parliament of Iceland is the oldest still acting parliament in the world. It was established in 930 AD

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Princeton researchers successfully turned a live cat into a functioning telephone in 1929

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Zero shots were fired in the longest war in history - the 335 Year War. It was between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly, 1651-1986

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Astronomers have discovered there was once an ocean on Mars 4 billion years ago that was at least a mile deep

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Kusti is a form of traditional Indian wrestling

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Human fingers are so sensitive that if your fingers were the size of Earth, you could feel the difference between a house and a car

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2 is the only even prime number