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The book was the biggest-selling of 2008; in 2009, it was the second-biggest selling, losing only to its sequel New Moon.

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It is the only placental mammalian species where females have a pseudo-penis and lack an external vaginal opening.

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Dogs’ sense of hearing is more than ten times more acute than a human’s.

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Software testing can provide objective, independent information about the quality of software and the risk of its failure to a user or sponsor or any other stakeholder.

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The aardvark is the only living member of the genus Orycteropus, the family Orycteropodidae and the order Tubulidentata.

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The central four nitrogen atoms in a porphyrin macrocycle form a unique molecular pocket which is known to accommodate transition metals of various sizes and oxidation states.

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When the mechanism being investigated is more complicated than an intra- or intermolecular substitution or rearrangement, crossover experiment design can itself become a challenging question.

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The reaction allows for the coupling of sp3, sp2, and sp carbon atoms, (see orbital hybridization) which make it somewhat unusual among the palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions.

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Thorium is estimated to be over three times as abundant as uranium in the Earth's crust, and is chiefly refined from monazite sands as a by-product of extracting rare-earth elements.

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Mass estimates of Thylacosmilus have varied depending on mass regressions, weighing 41–150 kg (90–331 lb), this makes Thylacosmilus one of the largest known metatherian predators.

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Aquaculture involves cultivating freshwater, brackish water, and saltwater populations under controlled or semi-natural conditions and can be contrasted with commercial fishing, which is the harvesting of wild fish.

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According to ASTM D883, stress cracking is defined as "an external or internal crack in a plastic caused by tensile stresses less than its short-term mechanical strength".

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In October 2023, the route to Manchester was cancelled, leaving only phase 1, the route from London to Handsacre running onto the WCML with a branch to Birmingham.

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" These negative social stereotypes and pressure presented by the media are correlated with an increase of negative body image and declining self-worth, which can coincide with developing eating disorders and impact obesity rates.

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The photic zone starts at the surface and is defined as "the depth at which light intensity is only 1% of the surface value" (approximately 200 m in the open ocean).

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Outside the island, the United States hosts by far the largest Cuban community, estimated at 2.

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Microplastics are "synthetic solid particulate matter or polymeric matrices, with regular or irregular shape and with size ranging from 1 μm to 5 mm, of either primary or secondary manufacturing origin, which are insoluble in water.

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They are said to love humans so much they live only to serve them, producing milk (bottled) and eggs (packaged).

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5 μm wavelength) can excite overtone or combination modes of molecular vibrations.

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The first known people were the indigenous Khoisan, and Bantu-speaking peoples, who migrated in waves, from west and central Africa to the region 2,000 to 1,000 years ago.

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The term sex toy can also include BDSM apparatus and sex furniture such as sex swings; however, it is not applied to items such as birth control, pornography, or condoms.

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Sirius B, on the other hand, cannot be seen to the naked eye as its luminosity is only 2% that of the Sun.

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CI chondrites, also called C1 chondrites or Ivuna-type carbonaceous chondrites, are a group of rare carbonaceous chondrites, a type of stony meteorite.

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The prehistoric Chicxulub impact, 66 million years ago, is believed to be the cause not only of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event but acceleration of the evolution of mammals, leading to their dominance and, in turn, setting in place conditions for the eventual rise of humans.

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It is the second-largest moon in the Solar System after Jupiter's Ganymede, and is larger than Mercury, and yet Titan is only 40% as massive as Mercury, because Mercury is mainly iron and rock, whereas Titan is mostly ice, which is less dense.

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The vulva can be affected by many disorders, which may often result in irritation.

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It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide.

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The incline is unusual for using a 5 ft (1,524 mm) track gauge, mainly used in Finland, Russia, and Mongolia.

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In some cases these displays were voluntary on the part of people who willingly agreed, while in other cases the people were displayed without their consent.

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The Y chromosome is typically only passed from male parents to male offspring.

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Because the arrangement of atoms in diamond is extremely rigid, few types of impurity can contaminate it (two exceptions are boron and nitrogen).

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Albinism can reduce the survivability of an animal; for example, it has been suggested that albino alligators have an average survival span of only 24 years due to the lack of protection from UV radiation and their lack of camouflage to avoid predators.

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The district and its projects are unusual in that they were funded almost entirely by local tax initiatives, unlike similar projects elsewhere which were funded by the federal government and coordinated by the U.

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The first identification of a Denisovan individual occurred in 2010, based on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) extracted from a juvenile finger bone excavated from the Siberian Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains in 2008.

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The Eisenhower Tunnel, with a maximum elevation of 11,158 feet (3,401 m) and length of 1.

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In early March 1990, the ZR1 would set new records for the highest average speed over 24 hours at over 175 mph (282 km/h) and highest average speed over 5,000 miles at over 173 mph (278 km/h).

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For example, the supersonic airliner Concorde had a particularly high pressure differential due to flying at unusually high altitude: up to 60,000 ft (18,288 m) while maintaining a cabin altitude of 6,000 ft (1,829 m).

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This meteorite is important because it was the first fall of an iron meteorite viewed and reported by a significant number of witnesses, despite its low remaining total known weight.

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The term Polynésie was first used in 1756 by the French writer Charles de Brosses, who originally applied it to all the islands of the Pacific.

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The country covers an area of 438,317 square kilometres (169,235 sq mi) and has a population of over 46 million, making it the 58th largest country by area and the 31st most populous in the world.

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It connects not only Geneva but also feeds the Maurienne railway and the Geneva to Valence via Grenoble line.

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These structures rest on a foundation that is carefully designed to transfer the weight of the bridge to the subsoil without settling.

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The current scientific consensus on climate change is that solar variations only play a marginal role in driving global climate change, since the measured magnitude of recent solar variation is much smaller than the forcing due to greenhouse gases.

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Coastal cutthroat trout are resident in tributary streams and rivers of the Pacific basin and are rarely found more than 100 miles (160 km) from the ocean.

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6 mi tall), as well as one of the largest canyons in the Solar System (Valles Marineris, 4,000 km or 2,500 mi long).

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Solar cycle 24 is the most recently completed solar cycle, the 24th since 1755, when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began.

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In Alvin, 42 in (1,100 mm) of rain fell in one day, which at one point was the record 24‑hour precipitation amount for any location in the United States.

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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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In 1974, the SR-71 set the record for the quickest flight between London and New York at 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56 seconds.

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This unusual method of construction substantially reduced the first cost of construction compared to an all-masonry structure, but at the cost of more expensive maintenance.

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They were capable of reaching speeds of up to 90 mph (145 km/h).

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It is currently the only member of the genus Delphinus, the type genus of the subfamily Delphininae.

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5 m (18 ft) long and weighing up to 1,600 kg (3,530 lb).

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They have unspecialized cells that can transform into other types and that often migrate between the main cell layers and the mesohyl in the process.

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Only recently, since the mid-20th century, has it been widely used to refer to elements with intermediate or borderline properties between metals and nonmetals.

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(By contrast, classical physics explains matter and energy only on a scale familiar to human experience, including the behavior of astronomical bodies such as the Moon.

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Bose–Einstein statistics apply only to particles that do not follow the Pauli exclusion principle restrictions.

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While a distinction between metals and other minerals had existed since antiquity, a classification of chemical elements as metallic or nonmetallic emerged only in the late 18th century.

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The weighted arithmetic mean is similar to an ordinary arithmetic mean (the most common type of average), except that instead of each of the data points contributing equally to the final average, some data points contribute more than others.

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Stars, planets, and visible gas clouds only form about 6% of this ordinary matter.

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However, Bufo and related species like Incilius alvarius contain only trace amounts of bufotenin, with their major active component instead being 5-MeO-DMT.

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The ytterbium concentration is low because it is found only among many other rare-earth elements.

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Unlike cells of animals and other eukaryotes, bacterial cells contain circular chromosomes, do not contain a nucleus and rarely harbour membrane-bound organelles.

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About half of the overall risk is related to genetics, with more than 70 genes involved.

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Some evolutionary psychologists argue that evolutionary theory can provide a foundational, metatheoretical framework that integrates the entire field of psychology, much as evolutionary biology has done for biology.

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Christie's, which sold the work in 2017, stated that most leading scholars consider it an original work by Leonardo, but this attribution has been disputed by some leading specialists who propose that he only contributed certain elements; others believe that the extensive restoration prevents a definitive attribution.

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The Hope Diamond's recorded history begins in 1666, when the French gem merchant Jean-Baptiste Tavernier purchased the raw Golconda stone in India.

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Gadolinium possesses unusual metallurgical properties, to the extent that as little as 1% of gadolinium can significantly improve the workability and resistance to oxidation at high temperatures of iron, chromium, and related metals.

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These concessions can include a reduction in the severity of the charges, the dismissal of some charges, or a more lenient sentencing recommendation.

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

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Human infanticide has been recorded in almost every culture.

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A dog's sense of smell is so powerful that they can detect changes in a person's emotional state.

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Hunting advocates state that regulated hunting can be a necessary component of modern wildlife management, for example to help maintain a healthy proportion of animal populations within an environment's ecological carrying capacity when natural checks such as natural predators are absent or insufficient, or to provide funding for breeding programs and maintenance of natural reserves and conservation parks.

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An audio signal, typically originating from a microphone, recording, or radio broadcast, is electronically amplified to a power level sufficient to drive the motor, reproducing the sound corresponding to the original unamplified signal.

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Many FFT algorithms depend only on the fact that e − 2 π i / n {\textstyle e^{-2\pi i/n}} is an nth primitive root of unity, and thus can be applied to analogous transforms over any finite field, such as number-theoretic transforms.

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It most commonly takes place between family members or friends, but can also develop among groups, such as sporting teams and whenever people spend time together.

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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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5 billion years old, containing a rare volcanic rock called komatiite.

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" Place attachment is one aspect of a more complex and multidimensional "sense of place" and cannot be explained simply through a cause and effect relationship.

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