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An Olympic gold medal must contain 92.5 percent silver

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The languages of Africa belong to many distinct language families, among which the largest are: Niger–Congo, which include the large Atlantic-Congo and Bantu branches in West, Central, Southeast and Southern Africa.

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The most popular breed of dog in the US is the Labrador Retriever.

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These scientific hypotheses are as yet unvalidated, and they can overlap with quantum mysticism.

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Over the centuries, the language has incorporated some words of African, Spanish, Native American and English origin, sometimes giving it linguistic features found only in Louisiana.

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It is known primarily from the Codex Argenteus, a 6th-century copy of a 4th-century Bible translation, and is the only East Germanic language with a sizeable text corpus.

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India has a Bill of Rights for cows.

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In Canada, this loss has been attributed largely to residential schools, where Indigenous students were often punished severely for speaking their first languages.

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The city of Venice stands on about 120 small islands.

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This is unique among American languages; language shift towards European colonial languages (in this case, the other official language of Spanish) has otherwise been a nearly universal phenomenon in the Western Hemisphere, but Paraguayans have maintained their traditional language while also adopting Spanish.

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It is the only Semitic language officially written in the Latin script.

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The official beverage of Ohio is tomato juice.

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It is the only Celtic language still in use on the European mainland.

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Sex is the safest tranquilizer in the world. IT IS 10 TIMES MORE EFFECTIVE THAN VALIUM.

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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.

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Dogs have three eyelids. The third lid, called a nictitating membrane or "haw," keeps the eye lubricated and protected.

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The holotype and only known specimen consists of a mostly complete skull with an accompanying lower jaw and a hyoid bone, found near Minchinhampton, a town in Gloucestershire.

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It houses over 12,000 animals of more than 680 species and subspecies.

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Estimates of the number of major mass extinctions in the last 540 million years range from as few as five to more than twenty.

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A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

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Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

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Chocolate is poisonous to dogs because it contains theobromine.

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Davy Crockett had a dog named Sport.

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In ancient Greece "idiot" meant a private citizen or layman.

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Dogs are mentioned in the Bible more than 35 times.

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The first dogs were self-domesticated wolves which, at least 12,000 years ago, became attracted to the first sites of permanent human habitation.

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Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13.

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A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

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Julius Caesar’s autograph is worth about $2,000,000.

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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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A dog's nose is the equivalent of a human's fingerprints, as no two dogs have the same nose print.

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While, due to indeterminacy and possibly free will, the future cannot be predicted with certainty, present understanding in various scientific fields allows for the prediction of some far-future events, if only in the broadest outline.

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For some time Frederic Chopin, the composer and pianist, wore a beard on only one side of his face, explaining: "It does not matter, my audience sees only my right side."

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Amniota is defined as the smallest crown clade (the group including all descendants of the last common ancestor) containing humans, the Greek tortoise, and the Nile crocodile.

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It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year`s supply of footballs.

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For decades, the prevailing view was that modern humans replaced archaic populations without significant interbreeding, despite some morphological evidence from fossils like the Oase 1 mandible suggesting otherwise.

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According to FishBase, about 34,800 species of fish had been described as of February 2022, which is more than the combined total of all other vertebrates: mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds.

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Worldwide, more than 10% of marriages are between first or second cousins.

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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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In 1996 he was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records for creating the world's smallest book.

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A number of animals are capable of aerial locomotion, either by active flight, passive gliding or, in rare occasions, ballooning, also known as kiting.

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The genus was first described in 1884 by American paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh based on a nearly complete skeleton discovered in Garden Park, Colorado, in rocks belonging to the Morrison Formation.

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In some species the frontmost pair of legs has converted to a sensory function, while in others, different appendages can grow large enough to take on the appearance of extra pairs of legs.

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A Czech man, Jan Honza Zampa, holds the record for drinking one liter of beer in 4.11 seconds.

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The NY phone book had 22 Hitlers before WWII. The NY phone book had 0 Hitlers after WWII.

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It is a myth that dogs are color blind. They can actually see in color, just not as vividly as humans. It is akin to our vision at dusk.

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It is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre, and has been described as the first novel, or at least the first English novel – although these labels are disputed.

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Jellyfish have been in existence for at least 500 million years, and possibly 700 million years or more, making them the oldest multi-organ animal group.

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, written in 1818, is often credited as the first true science fiction novel.

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86,600 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda.

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Extinctions in northern Eurasia were staggered over tens of thousands of years between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, while extinctions in the Americas were virtually simultaneous, spanning only 3,000 years at most.

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Its only known member species, Heterodontosaurus tucki, was named in 1962 based on a skull discovered in South Africa.

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Deinocheirus was an unusual ornithomimosaur, the largest of the clade at 11 m (36 ft) long, and weighing 6.

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Gallimimus is the largest known ornithomimid; adults were about 6 metres (20 ft) long, 1.

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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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It has evolved large hump muscles, unique among bears, and paws up to 21 cm (8.

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Although projectiles are commonly used in human conflict, projectile use by organisms other than humans is relatively rare.

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It is the first inland aquarium with a permanent saltwater fish collection.

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Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

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All centipedes are venomous and can inflict painful stings, injecting their venom through pincer-like appendages known as forcipules or toxicognaths, which are actually modified front legs instead of fangs.

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There are 1 million ants for every human in the world.

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Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

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When dogs were evolving, bone marrow could sometimes form an important part of their diet.

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They are portrayed as normal kids who can transform themselves as superheroes replacing Robby Reed during the 1980s.

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The most common name in Italy is Mario Rossi.

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Boxers are so named because of their manner of playing using their front paws.

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Dogs with big, square heads and large ears (like the Saint Bernard) are the best at hearing subsonic sounds.

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1 in 5 of the world's doctors are Russian.

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Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour.

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The term "dog days of summer" was coined by the ancient Greeks and Romans to describe the hottest days of summer that coincided with the rising of the Dog Star, Sirius.

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The American Kennel Club, the most influential dog club in the United States, was founded in 1884.

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Dogs can see in color, though they most likely see colors similar to a color-blind human. They can see better when the light is low.

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The average American looks at eight houses before buying one.

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Most lipstick contains fish scales.

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There are 269 steps to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa

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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, written and published in 1838, is the only complete novel by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe.

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The average human blinks their eyes 6,205,000 times each year.

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About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.

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More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.

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No night vision goggles needed! Dogs’ eyes contain a special membrane, called the tapetum lucidum, which allows them to see in the dark.

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