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The first inhabitants of Tuvalu were Polynesians, so the origins of the people of Tuvalu can be traced to the spread of humans out of Southeast Asia, from Taiwan, via Melanesia and across the Pacific islands of Polynesia.

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Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!

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Czechs are the biggest consumers of beer per male in the world.

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The angel falls in Venezuela are nearly 20 times taller than Niagara Falls.

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English as a second or foreign language (ESL or EFL) is the teaching and learning of English by people whose first language is not English.

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Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it.

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Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn`t wear pants!

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Eighty-seven percent of dog owners say their dog curls up beside them or at their feet while they watch T.V.

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It is used to write the Maltese language, which evolved from the otherwise extinct Siculo-Arabic dialect, as a result of 800 years of independent development.

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Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie.

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They are valued for their distinctiveness from the Latin script and for the ease with which literacy can be achieved.

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Eighteen muscles or more can move a dog’s ear.

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Insects outnumber humans 100,000,000 to one.

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In 2004, Tamil became the first language to be recognised as a classical language of India.

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The majority were created during the Achaemenid era, and contain primarily economic records.

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Unlike many Munda languages that had their vowel systems restructured and shrunk to five such as Mundari, Ho, and Kharia, Santali retains a larger vowel system of eight phonemic cardinal vowels, which is very unusual in the South Asian linguistic area.

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The language has 47 or 48 consonant phonemes, of which 22 or 23 are fricatives, depending upon whether one counts [h] as phonemic, but it has only 3 phonemic vowels.

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Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

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Numerous regional languages are spoken as first languages by Pakistan's various ethnolinguistic groups.

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The 2001 Census recorded 30 languages which were spoken by more than a million native speakers and 122 which were spoken by more than 10,000 people.

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The significant use of Chinese characters in Japan first began to take hold around the 5th century CE and has since had a profound influence in shaping Japanese culture, language, literature, history, and records.

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It’s been demonstrated that dogs can reduce both physical and emotional anxiety.

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Although no older written records of the original Proto-Indo-European population remain, some aspects of their culture and their religion can be reconstructed from later evidence in the daughter cultures.

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Americans love dogs! 44% of U.S. households have a dog, which equates to 55.3 million homes

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More bullets were fired in `Starship Troopers` than any other movie ever made.

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BCPL was first implemented by Martin Richards of the University of Cambridge in 1967.

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The word "gonzo" is believed to have been first used in 1970 to describe an article about the Kentucky Derby by Hunter S.

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Parrots are the only creatures that display true tripedalism, using their necks and beaks as limbs with propulsive forces equal to or greater than those forces generated by the forelimbs of primates when climbing vertical surfaces.

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Dogs are about as smart as a two- or three-year-old child. This means they can understand about 150-200 words, including signals and hand movements with the same meaning as words.

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Scotland has more redheads than any other part of the world.

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Dogs are pack animals -- they don't enjoy being alone.

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The ancient religion Zoroastrianism includes in its religious text titled the Zend Avesta a section devoted to the care and breeding of dogs.

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Dogs have a unique way of showing affection, called a "butt wag," where they wag their tail and wiggle their rear end.

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Like human babies, Chihuahuas are born with a soft spot in their skull which closes with age.

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, but supplemented with two explanatory paragraphs, the first pronouncing the dynamic character of the microbiome, and the second clearly separating the term microbiota from the term microbiome.

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In most watch advertisements the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

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The most common name in world is Mohammed.

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Dogs see in colors of various shades of blue and yellow.

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Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.”

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The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA”.

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The most dogs ever owned by one person were 5,000 Mastiffs owned by Kublai Khan.

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In recent years, some Austinites have adopted the unofficial slogan "Keep Austin Weird", which refers to the desire to protect small, unique, and local businesses from being overrun by large corporations.

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Jumping spiders are spiders in the family Salticidae, with almost 700 genera and around 7,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders – comprising 13% of spider species.

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Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.

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If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.

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Greyhounds can reach a speed of up to 45 miles per hour.

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Female dogs carry puppies for about nine weeks before birth.

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More than 100 known species of newts are found in North America, Europe, North Africa and Asia.

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It has a lifespan of 12 to 15 years in the wild, and it may grow to 5 in (13 cm) in length.

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Dire wolf fossils have rarely been found north of 42°N latitude; there have been only five unconfirmed records above this latitude.

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You were born with 300 bones, but by the time you are an adult you will only have 206.

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A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

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Although some other theropods might have rivaled or exceeded Tyrannosaurus in size, it is still among the largest known land predators, with its estimated bite force being the largest among all terrestrial animals.

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There are about 2 chickens for every human in the world.

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The Beagle came into prominence in the 1300s and 1400s during the days of King Henry VII of England. Elizabeth I was fond of Pocket Beagles, which were only 9" high.

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Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand while drawing with the other

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In France, a five year old child can buy an alcoholic drink in a bar

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Your pup reaches his full size between 12 and 24 months.

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"You" is the second most spoken English word

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The `Golden Arches` of fast food chain McDonalds is more recognized worldwide than the religious cross of Christianity.

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Hawaii is the only coffee producing state.

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There are 1,792 steps in the Eiffel Tower

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The first time the ginkgo-toothed beaked whale was documented alive was late 2020.

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Antarctica is the only continent that does not have land areas below sea level.

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Dogs have a third eyelid called a nictitating membrane, which helps to protect their eyes and keep them moist.

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Female dogs can get pregnant when their bodies undergo changes which make them receptive to male dogs. This is called being on heat or in estrus.

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Thirty-five percent of people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

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Upright, stiff, rapid tail movement is not wagging or "friendly" but indicates a dog who's rather excited and focused.

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The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

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In April 2024, Ichthyotitan severnensis was established as a valid shastasaurid taxon and is considered both the largest marine reptile ever discovered and the largest macropredator ever discovered.

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The kraken, as a subject of sailors' superstitions and mythos, was first described in a Norwegian glossary by Christen Jensøn in 1646.

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035 oz) at maturity, while the giant squid can exceed 10 metres (33 ft) in length and the colossal squid can weigh almost 500 kilograms (1,100 lb) or more, making them the largest living invertebrates.

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It is the only known member of the genus Eurypharynx and the family Eurypharyngidae.

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The following sentence: `A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.` Contains the nine different pronunciations of "ough" in the English Language.

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It is the only genus in the family Cuniculidae.

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Many extant aulopiforms are deep-sea fishes, with some species recognized as being hermaphroditic, a number of which are able to self-fertilise.

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The remaining two are not considered to be threatened with extinction, one of which, the flatback turtle, is found only in the waters of Australia, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia.

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Emus and kangaroos can't walk backwards.

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Botanist Robert Brown wrote the first detailed scientific description in 1814 although his work remained unpublished for 180 years.

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The average lifespan of a dog is 10-13 years.

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