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Though Francis Ronalds first demonstrated a working telegraph over a substantial distance in 1816, he was unable to put it into practical use.

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The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

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They are sensitive and easily stressed by humans, which can sometimes be fatal.

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In Quebec, there is an old law that states margarine must be a different color than butter.

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Numerous writers and critics have commented that his fictional works, written mostly in the first two decades of the 20th century, seem to have anticipated later world events.

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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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They are one of the oldest bats known, existing around 48 million years ago.

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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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Why do they do that? When dogs kick after going to the bathroom, they are using the scent glands on their paws to further mark their territory.

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Mike Nesmith`s (the guitarist of The Monkeys) mom invented White Out.

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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 U.S. Post Office handles 43 percent of the world’s mail.

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A one year old dog is as physically mature as a 15 year old human.

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Lightning strikes the earth about 8 million times a day.

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There are a million ants for every person on Earth.

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An American Animal Hospital Association poll found that 33% of dog owners admit to talking to their dogs on the phone and leaving answering machine messages for them while away.

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On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

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Dogs’ nose prints are as unique as a human’s finger prints, and can be used to accurately identify them.

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There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.

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A dog’s mouth exerts 150–200 pounds of pressure per square inch with some dogs exerting up to 450 pounds per square inch.

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

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"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

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Dogs are direct descendants of wolves.

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The average shelf-life of a latex condom is about two years.

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The most popular male dog names are Max and Jake. The most popular female dog names are Maggie and Molly.

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Humans use a total of 72 different muscles in speech.

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The mother of Michael Nesmith of "The Monkees" invented whiteout.

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Dogs can see in color, but not as vividly as humans.

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The Labrador Retriever has been the most popular dog breed since 1991.

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One in ten people live on an island.

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Pratchett first explored the idea of a disc-shaped world in the novel Strata (1981).

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In 1778, fashionable women of Paris never went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod attached to their hats.

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Dogs have a wet nose to collect more of the tiny droplets of smelling chemicals in the air.

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The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

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Viruses are small infectious agents that can only replicate inside the living cells of a host organism, because they need the replication machinery of the host to do so.

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Humphrey Bogart NEVER said “Play it again, Sam” in Casablanca

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There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S that there are real ones.

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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 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually.

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By the mid-1990s, Braid, the Promise Ring, American Football, and the Get Up Kids emerged from Midwest emo, and several independent record labels began to specialize in the genre.

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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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The word Pennsylvania is misspelled on the Liberty Bell.

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In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

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The name of the dog on the Cracker Jacks box is Bingo. The Taco Bell Chihuahua is a rescued dog named Gidget.

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Puppies love games such as hide and seek! Hide, then call your pup's name so she can try to find you.

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The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head

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Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

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President Calvin Coolidge owned at least a dozen dogs.

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Alabama was the first state to recognize Christmas as an official holiday.

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Human infanticide has been recorded in almost every culture.

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Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.

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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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Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

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There are hundreds of breeds of dogs.

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The value of Pi will be officially "rounded down" to 3.14 from 3.14159265359 on December 31, 1999.

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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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In a lifetime the average human produces enough quarts of spit to fill 2 swimming pools.

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The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army. G.P. for `General Purpose` vehicle.

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The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Libraries.

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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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Antisemitism—prejudice against and hatred of Jews—has increased greatly in the Arab world since the beginning of the 20th century, with a variety of proposed explanations: the dissolution and breakdown of the Ottoman Empire and traditional Islamic society; European influence, brought about by Western imperialism and Arab Christians; Nazi propaganda and relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world; resentment over Zionism and the experience of the Nakba; the rise of Arab nationalism; Quranic passages justifying hostile beliefs and treatment of Jews; and the widespread proliferation of anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist conspiracy theories.

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In 2023, mixed amphetamine salts (Adderall) was the 15th most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 32 million prescriptions.

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Symptoms may be minimal, without patient awareness of the condition.

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Very high doses can result in psychosis, which rarely occurs at therapeutic doses even during long-term use.

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" The concept of romantic love also came to represent the idea of individualistic choice in marriage and sexual partners, although it's rarely realized fully and can be a source of both gratification and disappointment in relationships.

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The term physiognomy can also refer to the general appearance of a person, object, or terrain without reference to its implied characteristics—as in the physiognomy of an individual plant (e.

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The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments

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President John F Kennedy could read 4 newspapers in 20 minutes.

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Ordinary ('baryonic') matter therefore composes only 4.

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Some psychologists can also be classified as behavioral or cognitive scientists.

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Tiger Woods stuttered as a child and used to talk to his dog until he fell asleep in an effort to get rid of it.

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It’s estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.

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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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In its application to molecules the NMR effect can be observed only in the presence of a static magnetic field.

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The effective thermal conductivity varies with heat-pipe length and can approach 100 kW/(m⋅K) for long heat pipes, in comparison with approximately 0.

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