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“He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.” - Confucius (Kong Qiu)

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The part of lightning that we can actually see, according to the National Severe Storms Laboratory, comes from the ground up, not the sky down.

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Bloom is a natural protective layer that coats eggs, sealing the pores to diminish moisture loss and preventing the development of bacteria.

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Ketchup was originally marketed as a medicine, which happened a fter an 1834 publication claimed tomatoes could treat digestive problems.

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According to a study, mass murderers and serial killers are born in higher numbers in November than in any other month.

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In order to incubate her eggs, the female Burmese python raises her body temperature by as much as seven degrees warmer than air temperature. To accomplish this, they hiccup repeatedly or have muscle spasms.

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The Hercules beetle, which is named a fter the demigod, can li ft more than a hundred times its body weight, and is native to South and Central America.

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Our eyes can detect a candle flame from as far as 1.7 miles (2.75 kilometers).

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There was a calendar made during the French Revolution known as the “French Republican Calendar” that had 100 seconds in a minute, ten hours in a day, ten weeks in a month, and twelve months in a year.

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In 2010, a serial killer named Rodney Alcala was his own attorney for his trial case. In a deep voice, he would interrogate himself on the witness stand addressing them to Mr. Alcala, and then answer them himself in a normal voice.

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If you want to climb Mount Everest, you have to save between $60,000 and $120,000. This price includes sherpas, supplies, and permits.

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Although naked mole rats are rodents, they live like many insects. For example, they live in colonies that are led by a queen or dominant rat; and the queen is the only female to breed and bear young.

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The verb poop meant to produce a short blast of sound with a horn during the Middle Ages. This changed in the late 1600’s according to the Oxford English Dictionary, and it meant to break wind.Nature, Earth & The Universe

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The largest flying bird in North America is the California condor. Its wingspan can be as wide as ten feet (three meters) from tip to tip and they can fly as high as 15,000 feet (4,500 meters) by catching air currents.

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725,000 people are killed by mosquitoes every year.

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In 1997, a man in Frankfurt, Germany, went to the police to report his car stolen. Twenty years later, the car was tracked down by the police, finding out that the man just forgot where he parked it, and he just assumed it was stolen.

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The most abundant star in the universe is the red dwarf star, which is much smaller than the Sun, but has a much longer lifetime. Their surface temperatures can reach 5,846 degrees Fahrenheit (3,230 degrees Celsius).

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On average, a person yawns approximately 250,000 times over the course of their life. Even babies in the womb do it as early as twelve to fourteen weeks.

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An epizootic is the term used to refer to an outbreak of disease that affects many animals at the same time.

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Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr. is the real name of rapper Snoop Dogg. His mother thought he looked like Snoopy from the Peanuts and that’s where his nickname comes from.

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The country that eats the most macaroni and cheese in the world is Canada.

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