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Researchers at the Texas Department of Highways in Fort Worth determined the cow population of the U.S. burps some 50 million tons of valuable hydrocarbons into the atmosphere each year. The accumulated burps of ten average cows could keep a small house adequately heated and its stove operating for a year.

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It is impossible to lick your elbow.

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Pugs and other dogs with short muzzles have a peculiar head-type known as "Brachycephalic."

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Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!

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The smallest bat, and one of the smallest extant mammals, is Kitti's hog-nosed bat, which is 29–33 mm (1.

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Two-thirds of the world`s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

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The pupils of a goat`s eyes are square.

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Dogs sweat through the pads of their feet.

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Donkeys kill more people than plane crashes.

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The oldest known breed is likely the Saluki, originally trained by Egyptians to help them track game.

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There`s a systematic lull in conversation every 7 minutes.

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6 in) bumblebee bat to the 30 metres (98 ft) blue whale—possibly the largest animal to have ever lived.

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The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft.

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Studies have shown that children laugh an average of 300 times/day and adults 17 times/day, making the average child more optimistic, curious, and creative than the adult.

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The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra`s "Its A Wonderful Life."

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A dog's nose is wet because it helps to clean their face.

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It broadens the scope of the first and second waves of feminism, which largely focused on the experiences of women who were white, cisgender, and middle-class, to include the different experiences of women of color, poor women, immigrant women, and other groups, and aims to separate itself from white feminism by acknowledging women's differing experiences and identities.

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A dog’s heart beats up to 120 times per minute, or 50% faster than the average human heartbeat of 80 times per minute.

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The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

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The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London

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You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

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A Russian dog named Laika was the first animal in space, traveling around Earth in 1957.

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Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.

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It is illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California.

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The first automobile race ever seen in the United States was held in Chicago in 1895. The track ran from Chicago to Evanston, Illinois. The winner was J. Frank Duryea, whose average speed was 71/2 miles per hour.

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A literal translation of a standard traffic sign in China: "Give large space to the festive dog that makes sport in the roadway."

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If done perfectly, a rubix cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.

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The S in Harry S. Truman did not stand for anything.

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In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.

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In Canada and the United States, the North American beaver is often referred to simply as "beaver;" however, this can cause some confusion because another distantly related rodent, Aplodontia rufa, is often called the "mountain beaver".

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The Cat Fanciers Association (CFA) recognizes 44 breeds of cats.

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Endal was the first dog to ride on the London Eye (the characteristic ferris wheel in London, England), and was also the first known dog to successfully use a ATM machine.

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The Ancient Egyptian word for cat was mau, which means "to see".

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Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.

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Flyball, a dog sport consisting of relays, hurdles, and ball retrieving, was developed in the late 60s, and the first tournament was held in 1983.

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A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.

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This can be coined as a 'jump-to-conclusions' bias that can increase the spread of pseudoscientific beliefs.

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The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first grade.

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While members of Schizotheriinae had body proportions resembling those of other ungulates, members of the subfamily Chalicotheriinae developed unusual elongated gorilla-like forelimbs.

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A cat's normal temperature varies around 101 degrees Fahrenheit.

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`Obsession` is the most popular boat name.

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They are notable for the enormous sizes attained by some species, and the group includes the largest animals to have ever lived on land.

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The spotted hyena is the most social of the Carnivora in that it has the largest group sizes and most complex social behaviours.

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As one of the first scientifically well-known dinosaurs, Iguanodon has occupied a small but notable place in the public's perception of dinosaurs, its artistic representation changing significantly in response to new interpretations of its remains.

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The largest species was Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the most massive known terrestrial predators of all time, which measured over 13 metres (43 ft) in length and according to most modern estimates up to 8.

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Two other orders of ungulates, Notoungulata and Litopterna, both native to South America, became extinct at the end of the Pleistocene, around 12,000 years ago.

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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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Though the fossil record is incomplete, numerous studies have demonstrated that there is enough information available to give a good understanding of the pattern of diversification of life on Earth, and it can fill gaps in our understanding of the sequence of evolution on earth.

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The couple settled in North Bennington, Vermont, in 1945, after the birth of their first child, when Hyman joined the faculty of Bennington College.

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In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

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The first industrial production of aluminium was initiated by French chemist Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville in 1856.

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In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.

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Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene`s Wild Kingdom."

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There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.

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Catfish range in size and behavior from the three largest species alive, the Mekong giant catfish from Southeast Asia, the wels catfish of Eurasia, and the piraíba of South America, to detritivorous and scavenging bottom feeders, down to the tiny ectoparasitic species known as the candiru.

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Chordata is the third-largest phylum of the animal kingdom (behind only the protostomal phyla Arthropoda and Mollusca) and is also one of the most ancient animal taxa.

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A cat usually has about 12 whiskers on each side of its face.

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Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins

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Smaller breeds mature faster than larger breeds.

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Spain leads the world in cork production

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Dogs have lived with humans for over 14,000 years. Cats have lived with people for only 7,000 years.

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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there`s no air pressure.

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The origin of amputating a dog’s tail may go back to the Roman writer Lucius Columella’s (A.D. 4-70) assertion that tail docking prevented rabies.

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The giant red star Betelgeuse has a diameter larger than that of the Earth's orbit around the sun.

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Neutering a cat extends its life span by two or three years.

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The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

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He made a voyage of exploration to Northern Europe in about 325 BC, but his account of it, known widely in antiquity, has not survived and is now known only through the writings of others.

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The surface of the Earth is about 60% water and 10% ice.

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It was first described by Alexander Wilson in 1812.

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One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930s lobbied against hemp farmers they saw it as competition.

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Except in a small portion of southern Asia, it is the only species of "goshawk" in its range and it is thus often referred to, both officially and unofficially, as simply goshawk.

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The largest known extinct hyracoid, Titanohyrax ultimus, has been estimated to weigh 600–1,300 kilograms (1,300–2,900 lb), comparable to a water buffalo.

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Monophyodonts are animals that develop only one set of teeth, while diphyodonts grow an early set of deciduous teeth and a later set of permanent or "adult" teeth.

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The wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax) is the largest bird of prey in the continent of Australia.

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The term "lagomorph" was first used in the 19th century, and combines the Ancient Greek words for "hare" and "form" to describe an animal that is "hare shaped".

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Humans can barely begin to comprehend them; however, some entities are worshipped by humans.

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10,000 Dutch cows pass through the Amsterdam airport each year.

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$283,200 is the absolute highest amount of money you can win on Jeopardy.

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There is a 1 in 4 chance that New York will have a white Christmas.

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In general, smaller breeds live longer than larger breeds.

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