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It is estimated to have about 310 million speakers, of which about 74 million are native speakers; it is spoken as a first language (in descending order of the number of speakers) in France, Canada (Quebec), Belgium (Wallonia and the Brussels-Capital Region), western Switzerland (Romandy region), Luxembourg, and Monaco.

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You can lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

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28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%.

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The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is the largest of the true foxes, and the most widely distributed member of the order Carnivora.

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The woolly mammoth began to diverge from the steppe mammoth about 800,000 years ago in Siberia.

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The arrival of the first people about 4,000 years ago and of Europeans more than 500 years ago, had a significant effect on Puerto Rico's fauna.

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The occurrence of the interchange was first discussed in 1876 by the "father of biogeography", Alfred Russel Wallace.

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First published in 2004, it was updated in 2016 to reflect recent discoveries.

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This was the first time a biologist observed deep-sea animals in their native environment and set several successive records for the deepest dive ever performed by a human, the deepest of which stood until it was broken by Barton 15 years later.

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gracilis was the smallest species at 55 to 100 kg (121 to 220 lb) in weight.

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They tend to be solitary animals, meeting only to mate and produce a litter of one to three offspring, which they raise for about two years.

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The novel was first published by Doubleday & Company in 1954.

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Plesiosaurs were among the first fossil reptiles discovered.

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Latimeria is a rare genus of fish which contains the only two extant species of coelacanth: the West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) and the Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis).

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A group of cats is called a “clowder.”

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The most common street name in the U.S. is Second Street.

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The largest dog was an English Mastiff who weighed 343 pounds.

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This common everyday occurrence composed of 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen, and 9% dioxide is called a `fart`.

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Thomas Jefferson helped enact a dog tax in Virginia, because he was annoyed that dogs were killing his sheep.

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In 1961, Borges came to international attention when he received the first International Formentor Prize, which he shared with Samuel Beckett.

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President Bill Clinton, who organized efforts to minimize the damage in the United States, labelled Y2K as "the first challenge of the 21st century successfully met", and retrospectives on the event typically commend the programmers who worked to avert the anticipated disaster.

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was Harrison Ford`s idea so that he could take a bathroom break.

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Nevada is the driest state in the U.S.. Each year it averages 7.5 inches (19 cm) of rain.

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One-fourth of the world`s population lives on less than $200 a year. Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.

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Even with their poor eyesight, dogs can still see better at night than humans do.

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The average dog's mouth can produce about 100-200 pounds of pressure per square inch.

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Since the first discovery of a virus, the tobacco mosaic virus, in the 1890s, more than 16,000 of the millions of virus species have been described in detail.

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Herbal medicine has been used since at least the Paleolithic era, with written records from ancient Sumer, Egypt, Greece, China, and India documenting its development and application over millennia.

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At least 1,760 species have been scientifically described, making it one of the largest vertebrate families, with only the Cyprinidae being more speciose.

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As a form of speculative fiction, it explores alternative futures or pasts but can also address real-world social issues.

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The term may be more strictly applied only to nodes adjacent to the root, or more loosely applied to nodes regarded as being close to the root.

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Big happy "helicopter" tail wagging is one sign of a really nice dog

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A couple presidential dogs were Golden Retrievers: "Liberty," the presidential dog of Gerald Ford, and "Victory," Ronald Reagan’s dog.

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More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

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Oil spills can result from the release of crude oil from tankers, offshore platforms, drilling rigs, and wells.

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Activities of playful cleverness can be said to have "hack value" and therefore the term "hacks" came about, with early examples including pranks at MIT done by students to demonstrate their technical aptitude and cleverness.

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It is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal and covers an area of 3,573 km2 (1,380 sq mi), making it the fifth-largest district in Nepal by area.

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The Ural owl may include up to 15 subspecies, but most likely the number may be slightly fewer if accounting for clinal variations.

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Although classified currently as a least-concern species due its persistence over a rather wide distribution, this species is often quite rare and scarce and seems to be decreasing, especially in response to large-scale habitat degradation and deforestation.

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The integrated version is only suitable for surface snorkeling, while the separate device may also be used for surface breathing during breathhold underwater activities such as spearfishing, freediving, finswimming, underwater hockey, underwater rugby and for surface breathing while wearing scuba equipment.

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As a result of being focused on shamanism the series' cast is divided between humans and spirits, the latter not being able to go the afterlife due to their alliance with the former.

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A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if a strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods.

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On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.

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Hershey`s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it`s kissing the conveyor belt.

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It was collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, who compiled it from variants they recorded in the regions of Ringerike and Telemark.

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Imitative learning is different from observational learning in that it requires a duplication of the behaviour exhibited by the model, whereas observational learning can occur when the learner observes an unwanted behaviour and its subsequent consequences and as a result learns to avoid that behaviour.

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Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.

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Dogs have a wet nose to help them absorb scents.

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Ted Chiang has won three times out of three nominations, and Poul Anderson, Kelly Link, George R.

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In 1976, she became the first member of the British royal family to compete in the Olympic Games.

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The Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, commonly known as the National Zoological Park or simply the National Zoo, is one of the oldest zoos in the United States.

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The Cherokee Nation has more than 300,000 enrolled citizens, making it the largest of the 575 federally recognized tribes in the United States.

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This article uses "crocodile" or "true crocodile" to refer only to the species taxonomically included in the Crocodylidae family, extant or extinct.

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The oldest mammoth representative, Mammuthus subplanifrons, appeared around 6 million years ago during the late Miocene in southern and Eastern Africa.

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The first genetically modified animal, a mouse, was created in 1974 by Rudolf Jaenisch, and the first plant was produced in 1983.

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The 2020s AI boom was spurred on largely by advances in generative AI, which can create and modify media.

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There are nearly 14,000 animal shelters and rescue groups across North America.

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In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

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Pekingese and Japanese Chins were so important in the ancient Far East that they had their own servants and were carried around trade routes as gifts for kings and emperors. Pekingese were even worshipped in the temples of China for centuries.

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A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.

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Sharkskin has tiny tooth-like scales all over.

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Hyenas aren't actually dogs. They are more closely related to cats.

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Venus and Uranus are the only planets that rotate opposite to the direction of their orbit.

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Dogs cannot distinguish between red and green as these colors would appear as shades of grey to a dog.

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He currently holds the Guinness World Record for most dance moves by a bird.

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Golf courses cover 4% of North America.

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The sperm of a mouse is actually longer than the sperm of an elephant.

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The average person spends 6 months of their life sitting at red lights.

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During the Renaissance, detailed portraits of the dog as a symbol of fidelity and loyalty appeared in mythological, allegorical, and religious art throughout Europe, including works by Leonardo da Vinci, Diego Velázquez, Jan van Eyck, and Albrecht Durer.

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Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue.

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Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.

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Known for their use of fiddle as well as unusual and homemade instruments, and for their quirky and original lyrics focusing on everyday life, the working world and ordinary people.

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They failed to become the first team to three-peat since the 2000 New York Yankees, as well as the first National League team to accomplish this feat.

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The Peranakan Chinese () are an ethnic group defined by their genealogical descent from the first waves of Southern Chinese settlers to maritime Southeast Asia, known as Nanyang (Chinese: 南洋; pinyin: nán yáng; lit.

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The expression `to get fired` comes from long ago Clans that wanted to get rid of unwanted people, so they would burn their houses instead of killing them, creating the term `Got fired`.

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Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.

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One unspayed female dog, her mate and their puppies can produce 67,000 puppies in six years.

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Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

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A dog can locate the source of a sound in 1/600 of a second and can hear sounds four times farther away than a human can.

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Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

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