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Rhode Island is the only state which the hammer throw is a legal high school sport.

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A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A quarter has 119.

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Weird dog laws include allowing police offers in Palding, Ohio, to bite a dog to quiet it. In Ventura County, California, cats and dogs are not allowed to have sex without a permit.

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The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!

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The name Jeep comes from “GP”, the army abbreviation for General Purpose.

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Many foot disorders in dogs are simply an issue of too-long toenails.

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Right-handed people live, on average; nine years longer than left handed people.

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“The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.

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When dogs copulate, it is very normal for them to get stuck together and it may last for up to 45 minutes.

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An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

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No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".

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The "Dull Men's Hall of Fame" is located in Carroll, Wisconsin.

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All dogs are identical in anatomy, with 321 bones and 42 permanent teeth.

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The Amazon is the world's largest river, 3,890 miles (6,259 km) long.

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For the first time, nonverbal communication was studied and its relevance noted.

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Alfred Hitchcock didn`t have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

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Seventy percent of people sign their pet’s name on greeting and holiday cards.

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These stigmas can be categorized as visible or invisible, depending on whether the stigma is readily apparent to others.

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It also shows us how our preconceptions and mental shortcuts can impact our decision-making.

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The human feet perspire half a pint of fluid a day

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Although many scholars consider it a religious movement, its adherents typically see it as spiritual or as a unification of mind, body, and spirit, and rarely use the term New Age themselves.

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During a severe windstorm or rainstorm the Empire State Building sways several feet to either side.

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Some of the terms listed below can be used in casual speech without any intention of causing offense, while others may be much more offensive.

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Cats have the largest eyes of any mammal.

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70% of your cat's life is spent asleep.

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A tiger's stripes are like fingerprints

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Cats can be right-pawed or left-pawed.

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Others, such as some porpoises, engage in unihemispheric sleep where only one brain hemisphere sleeps at a time in order to maintain motion or homeostasis in marine environments.

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In 2023, mixed amphetamine salts (Adderall) was the 15th most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 32 million prescriptions.

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Symptoms may be minimal, without patient awareness of the condition.

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Not all megabats are large-bodied; nearly a third of all species weigh less than 50 g (1.

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Very high doses can result in psychosis, which rarely occurs at therapeutic doses even during long-term use.

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The Alaskan Malamute can withstand temperatures as low as 70 degrees below zero.

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There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

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Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

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Clownfish, wrasses, moray eels, gobies and other fish species are known to change sex, including reproductive functions. A school of clownfish is always built into a hierarchy with a female fish at the top. When she dies, the most dominant male changes sex and takes her place.

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Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any mammal.

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The book I Married Wyatt Earp (1967), based on a manuscript allegedly written in part by her, describes events she witnessed in Arizona that occurred before 1879, the year she claimed at other times to have first arrived in Tombstone.

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The paradox first appeared in print in a 1963 paper by Carl Sagan, and the paradox has since been more fully described by scientists.

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Cat's urine glows under a black light.

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A group of cats is called a clowder.

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At the age of 4 weeks, most dogs have developed the majority of their vocalizations.

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You can`t kill yourself by holding your breath.

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If never spayed or neutered, a female dog, her mate, and their puppies could produce over 66,000 dogs in 6 years!

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An estimated 1,000,000 dogs in the U.S. have been named as the primary beneficiaries in their owner’s will.

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California consumes more bottled water than any other product.

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In eighteenth-century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.

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The three most recognized Western names in China are Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, & Elvis Presley.

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In Croatia, scientists discovered that lampposts were falling down because a chemical in the urine of male dogs was rotting the metal.

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These languages are of unique historical significance, since most historical linguists consider Taiwan to be the original homeland of the Austronesian languages and all of its primary branches, except for Malayo-Polynesian, exist only on Taiwan.

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Their patterns and designs have set an artistic tradition for court manufactories which was kept alive during the entire duration of the Persian Empire up to the last royal dynasty of Iran.

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A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour.

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Among the ancient world's largest and richest cities, Carthage's strategic location provided access to abundant fertile land and major maritime trade routes that reached West Asia and Northern Europe.

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As children in the mid-late 2000s and 2010s, Generation Z was the first social generation to grow up with Web 2.

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The earliest surviving samples of tartan-style cloth are around 3,000 years old and were discovered in Xinjiang, China.

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In the oldest known versions, he is instead a member of the yeoman class.

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In addition to "formal" forms of dog training (operant conditioning, reinforcement, or classical conditioning), dogs are able to learn merely from observation.

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The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

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It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.

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The world’s smartest dogs are thought to be (1) the Border Collie, (2) the Poodle, and (3) the Golden Retriever and the dumbest dog is believed to be the Afghan Hound.

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The average person`s left hand does 56% of the typing.

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Until 1994, world maps and globes sold in Albania only had Albania on them.

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To design programs that can enhance human creativity without necessarily being creative themselves.

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India has one of the oldest continuous cultural traditions in the world.

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Prehistoric Egypt and Predynastic Egypt was the period of time starting at the first human occupation of the region and ending at the First Dynasty of Egypt around 3100 BC.

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The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.

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The earliest known translation of Odysseus' travels is Livius Andronicus' Latin Odusia (3rd century BCE)—surviving only in fragments, it was one of the first Latin literary texts.

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Today their descendants can be found throughout Greece and the Greek diaspora worldwide.

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A talking animal or speaking animal is any non-human animal that can produce sounds or gestures resembling those of a human language.

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The photic zone starts at the surface and is defined as "the depth at which light intensity is only 1% of the surface value" (approximately 200 m in the open ocean).

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It is the largest of the procyonid family, having a body length of 40 to 70 cm (16 to 28 in), and a body weight of 5 to 26 kg (11 to 57 lb).

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It is one of the oldest theories in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics, possibly overlapping in some interpretations with the animism of many indigenous societies, which is traditionally characterized as a more spiritual or religious worldview.

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Typical metalloids have a metallic appearance, may be brittle and are only fair conductors of electricity.

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It is distinctive in its appearance, with a long neck and legs, and can run for a long time at a speed of 55 km/h (34 mph) with short bursts up to about 70 km/h (43 mph), the fastest land speed of any bipedal animal.

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The average woman consumes 6 lbs of lipstick in her lifetime.

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Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the only angels named in the Bible.

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The famous nickname, "man’s best friend," is used in many other languages as well as English.

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King Louis XIX ruled France for 15 minutes.

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The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.

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Petting dogs is proven to lower blood pressure of dog owners.

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