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The first settlers of Australia, New Guinea, and the large islands just to the east arrived more than 60,000 years ago.

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Natural carbon cycle processes on Earth, mostly absorption by the ocean, can remove only a small part of this, and terrestrial vegetation loss due to deforestation, land degradation and desertification further compounds this deficiency.

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To make accurate records, tide gauges at fixed stations measure water level over time.

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While Earth is the only planet known to currently have active plate tectonics, evidence suggests that other planets and moons have experienced or exhibit forms of tectonic activity.

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At just 470 km (290 mi) in diameter, Miranda is one of the smallest closely observed objects in the Solar System that might be in hydrostatic equilibrium (spherical under its own gravity), and its total surface area is roughly equal to that of the U.

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Its largest crater, Caloris Planitia, has a diameter of 1,550 km (960 mi), which is about one-third the diameter of the planet (4,880 km or 3,030 mi).

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Kuwait is about 60% male (highest in the world). Latvia is about 54% female (highest in the world).

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More than 5,000,000 puppies are born in the U.S. every year.

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WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific armed their airplanes while stationed with .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measuring 27 feet before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, he went through "the whole 9 yards", hence the term.

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It can also be helpful for clarifying pronunciation among Chinese speakers who speak mutually unintelligible Chinese dialects.

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Residents of Houston, Texas lead the U.S. in eating out - approximately 4.6 times per week.

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The Basenji is the only barkless dog.

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Each month, there is at least one report of UFOs from each province of Canada.

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3.6 cans of Spam are consumed each second.

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The state of Maryland has no natural Lakes.

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A man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.

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Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesars. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920`s.

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Studies have shown that dyslexia is genetic and can be passed down through families.

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Jefferson invented the dumbwaiter, the monetary system, and the folding attic ladder.

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Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That’s more than sharks.

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It is the only Indo-Aryan language thought to have descended from more than one Prakrit, which gradually developed into Old Punjabi.

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"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

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If we had the same mortality rate now as in 1900, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.

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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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Morphine was first isolated in 1804 by German pharmacist Friedrich Sertürner.

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Dogs are naturally submissive to any creature with a higher pack status.

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The word “maverick” came into use after Samuel Maverick, a Texan refused to brand his cattle.

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

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Many animals intentionally consume psychoactive substances, and some traditional legends suggest animals first introduced humans to their use.

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It is notable for its unusual characteristics among the Samoyedic languages, as well among the greater Uralic languages.

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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

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It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

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The language can be confidently identified only as belonging to the Afroasiatic family, although it was likely part of the Berber languages, a part of a larger Libyco-Berber dialect continuum, precursor to the modern Berber languages, or possibly an extinct sister branch to the modern Berber languages.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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