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Science Fact 141: Scientists have discovered the shipwreck of Endurance (which sank in 1915) in extremely good condition. #ScienceFact

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Science Fact 140: Chimpanzees have been seen using insects to treat their wounds. #ScienceFact

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Science Fact 139: The Australian raspy cricket has the strongest measured bite of more than 650 insect species. #ScienceFact

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Science Fact 138: Scientists have produced the greatest amount of power yet in a nuclear fusion generator. This ‘clean’ electricity generator uses hydrogen and needs temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius. #ScienceFact

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Science Fact 137: The Beijing Winter Olympics will be the first to use entirely artificial snow, needing 223 million litres of water. #ScienceFact

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Science Fact 136: The recent volcanic eruption in Tonga produced a mushroom cloud 19 miles high, a sonic boom which was detected in the UK and around 400,000 lightning bolts. #ScienceFact

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Science Fact 135: The world’s fastest fish is the sailfish which can travel at up to 68 mph. #ScienceFact

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Science Fact 134: A common pipistrelle bat can eat over 3,000 insects in a single night. #ScienceFact

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Science Fact 133: In a double rainbow, the order of colours in the second rainbow is reversed. #ScienceFact

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Science Fact 132: Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale. #ScienceFact

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Science Fact 131: Father Christmas needs to travel at 7,919,904 km/h (4,921,200 mph) to deliver all the presents in one night! #ScienceFact

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Science Fact 130: Swiss cheese contains holes called ‘eyes’ which are believed to be formed by bacteria producing carbon dioxide in the cheese making process. #ScienceFact

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Science Fact 129: Bowhead whales are the longest living mammals. They can live to be over 200 years old. #ScienceFact

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Science Fact 128: A thimble full of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons. #ScienceFact

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Science Fact 127: A new two-legged robot, which can walk, skateboard, fly and balance on a loose tightrope, is designed to work in hard-to-reach environments. #ScienceFact

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Science Fact 126: Ducklings swim in a row behind the mother to reduce the drag and therefore save energy. #ScienceFact

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Science Fact 125: The largest firework display in the world took place in the Philippines on 1st January 2016. It lasted 1 hour and had 810,904 fireworks. #ScienceFact

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Science Fact 124: Some dogs have a special ability to understand as many as 12 new words per week and can remember them after two-months. #ScienceFact

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Science a Fact 123: Over 50 years after they were first discovered, fossils have been classified as part of the oldest meat-eating dinosaur ever discovered in the UK. #ScienceFact

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Science Fact 122: Lava at 1000 °C is still flowing from the volcano on La Palma, Canary Islands, turning the sea to steam where they meet. #ScienceFact