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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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The research history of Anoplotherium spans back to 1804 when Georges Cuvier first described the fossils of this extinct artiodactyl and named the genus after describing Palaeotherium, making it one of the first fossil mammal genera to be described as well as having one of the earliest official taxonomic authorities.

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The first fossils of Diplodocus were discovered in 1877 by S.

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After the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs (birds being the only surviving dinosaurs) and several mammalian groups, placental and marsupial mammals diversified into many new forms and ecological niches throughout the Paleogene and Neogene, by the end of which all modern orders had appeared.

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Lizards can self-amputate their tails for protection. It grows back after a few months.

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In Old England, the word "hound" was used to refer to all types of dogs.

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In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

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A duck`s quack doesn`t echo, and no one knows why.

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Some studies believe that dogs started to be domesticated 33,000 years ago.

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The first edition, self published by the author in 1891, received positive to mixed reviews, but book sales did not produce significant revenue.

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By the middle of the 19th century, Gothic Revival had become the pre-eminent architectural style in the Western world, only to begin to fall out of fashion in the 1880s and early 1890s.

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Beginning in 1900, her husband's best-selling picture book, Father Goose: His Book (first published in 1899), brought the family financial security that it had theretofore lacked.

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Ottoman rulers first assumed the style of caliph in the 14th century, though did at that point not claim religious authority beyond their own borders.

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After the French Revolution, the exploitation of a building stone, the tuffeau stone, abruptly increased its population of 600 inhabitants to more than 1000, maintained during the first half of the nineteenth century.

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The Kutubiyya Mosque or Koutoubia Mosque (Arabic: جامع الكتبية Arabic pronunciation: [ˈdʒaːmiʕu‿lkutuˈbijːa(h)]) is the largest mosque in Marrakesh, Morocco.

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Bukhara ( buu-KHAR-ə) is the seventh-largest city in Uzbekistan by population, with 305,500 residents as of 2026.

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Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

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1,800 cigarettes are smoked per person each year in China.

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Upper class groups consume foods that signify exclusivity and access to rare goods; while lower class groups, on the other hand, consume foods that are readily available.

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The Norwegian Lundehund is the only dog with six toes on each foot.

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He became the first foreign manager to win a Premier League and FA Cup double in 1998, repeated the feat in 2002, and led Arsenal to an unbeaten league title in 2004.

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If a rooster can`t fully extend its neck, it can`t crow.

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Elephants are the only animals that can`t jump.

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Thus, one can read certain authors who say that the islands’ population is, of all the regions of Greece, the only original one, and has not been subjected to external admixtures.

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Since resuming operations, the Browns have made the playoffs only three times, as a wild-card team in 2002, 2020, and 2023.

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Helicoprion was first named in 1899 by Alexander Karpinsky on the basis of fossils discovered in Russia and Australia, the generic name meaning "spiral saw".

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Popularly but incorrectly attributed as an ancestor of all vertebrates, or the oldest fish, or the oldest ancestor of humans, it is generally viewed as a basal chordate; it is a close relative of vertebrate ancestors but it is not an ancestor itself.

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“Canada” is an Indian word meaning “Big Village”.

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The oldest dog on record was an Australian cattle dog named Bluey who lived 29 years and 5 months. In human years, that is more than 160 years old.

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There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple, silver and month.

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