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Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.

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Dogs have a wet nose to help them absorb scents.

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Until the end of the 19th century, the only welding process was forge welding, which blacksmiths had used for millennia to join iron and steel by heating and hammering.

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Although the tunnel was designed for speeds up to 200 km/h (120 mph), trains are limited to a maximum speed of 160 km/h (99 mph) for safety reasons.

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The inspiration for the concertos is not the countryside around Mantua, as initially supposed, where Vivaldi was living at the time, since according to Karl Heller they could have been written as early as 1716–1717, while Vivaldi was engaged with the court of Mantua only in 1718.

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The area chosen for the capital had been inhabited by Aboriginal Australians for up to 21,000 years, by groups including the Ngunnawal and Ngambri.

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Ted Chiang has won three times out of three nominations, and Poul Anderson, Kelly Link, George R.

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Muzzleloading can apply to anything from cannons to pistols but in modern parlance the term most commonly applies to black powder small arms.

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Bcr-Abl tyrosine-kinase inhibitors (TKI) are the first-line therapy for most patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML).

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When members of a closed polyamorous relationship restrict their sexual activity to only members of that group, that is commonly referred to as polyfidelity.

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In 1976, she became the first member of the British royal family to compete in the Olympic Games.

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In folklore, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or non-human animal that is believed by some people to be able to appear to the living.

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The Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, commonly known as the National Zoological Park or simply the National Zoo, is one of the oldest zoos in the United States.

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The Cherokee Nation has more than 300,000 enrolled citizens, making it the largest of the 575 federally recognized tribes in the United States.

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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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The oldest mammoth representative, Mammuthus subplanifrons, appeared around 6 million years ago during the late Miocene in southern and Eastern Africa.

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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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The 2020s AI boom was spurred on largely by advances in generative AI, which can create and modify media.

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The relationship between the King and Anna is marked by conflict through much of the piece, as well as by a love to which neither can admit.

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Carbon's abundance, its unique diversity of organic compounds, and its unusual ability to form polymers at the temperatures commonly encountered on Earth, enables it to serve as the common element of all known life.

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Antioxidants are compounds that inhibit oxidation, a chemical reaction that can produce free radicals.

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There are nearly 14,000 animal shelters and rescue groups across North America.

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In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

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Pekingese and Japanese Chins were so important in the ancient Far East that they had their own servants and were carried around trade routes as gifts for kings and emperors. Pekingese were even worshipped in the temples of China for centuries.

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A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.

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Commenting on the 2006 awards, Marc Abrahams, editor of Annals of Improbable Research and co-sponsor of the awards, said that "[t]he prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative, and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology".

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Sharkskin has tiny tooth-like scales all over.

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Hyenas aren't actually dogs. They are more closely related to cats.

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Antygona Sofoklesa jest archetypem postaci, która w imię wyższych praw moralnych i rodowych sprzeciwia się autorytetowi władzy państwowej, kwestionując tym samym granice posłuszeństwa obywatelskiego.

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Albert Camus w "Dżumie" ukazuje, że odpowiedzialność za walkę z zarazą spada na każdego człowieka, niezależnie od jego roli społecznej czy osobistych przekonań, co podkreśla uniwersalność egzystencjalnego wyzwania.

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Konflikt między siostrami Balladyną a Aliną w "Balladynie" Słowackiego wybucha na tle rywalizacji o rękę księcia Kirkora, podsycany przez zazdrość i ambicję Balladyny.

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W "Panu Tadeuszu" Mickiewicza biały gołąb, pojawiający się w kluczowych momentach, symbolizuje nadzieję i powrót do domu, nawiązując do tradycyjnych wyobrażeń o wolności i pokoju.

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A century later, it has become the largest independent school movement in the world, with more than 1,200 independent schools and nearly 2,000 kindergartens in 75 countries, as well as more than 500 centers for special education in more than 40 countries.

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Venus and Uranus are the only planets that rotate opposite to the direction of their orbit.

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Dogs cannot distinguish between red and green as these colors would appear as shades of grey to a dog.

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At about 7 metres (23 ft) in length, with a weight of about 400 kg (880 lb), Dilophosaurus was one of the earliest large predatory dinosaurs and the largest-known land animal in North America at the time.

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Gardens take many forms; some only contain one type of plant, while others involve a complex assortment of plants, such as Botanical gardens, and complex designs, such as hedge mazes, while others take no particular plan, such as forest gardening.

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He currently holds the Guinness World Record for most dance moves by a bird.

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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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Dire wolf fossils have rarely been found north of 42°N latitude; there have been only five unconfirmed records above this latitude.

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The order's evolutionary history is not well understood, though fossil records indicate many more species lived in the past than are currently living – at least twice as many.

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It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country after Brazil in both total area and population and is the seventh-largest country in Africa.

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Golf courses cover 4% of North America.

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The sperm of a mouse is actually longer than the sperm of an elephant.

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The average person spends 6 months of their life sitting at red lights.

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Succulents are not a taxonomic category, since the term describes only the attributes of a particular species; some species in a genus such as Euphorbia, or family such as Asphodelaceae may be succulent, whereas others are less so or not at all.

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Some plants are serotinous and only disperse their seeds in response to an environmental stimulus.

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Cro-Magnons or European early modern humans (EEMH) were the first surviving expansion of early modern humans (Homo sapiens) found in Europe and Siberia, continuously occupying the continent possibly from as early as 56,800 years ago.

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During the Renaissance, detailed portraits of the dog as a symbol of fidelity and loyalty appeared in mythological, allegorical, and religious art throughout Europe, including works by Leonardo da Vinci, Diego Velázquez, Jan van Eyck, and Albrecht Durer.

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Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue.

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Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.

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Known for their use of fiddle as well as unusual and homemade instruments, and for their quirky and original lyrics focusing on everyday life, the working world and ordinary people.

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They failed to become the first team to three-peat since the 2000 New York Yankees, as well as the first National League team to accomplish this feat.

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The Peranakan Chinese () are an ethnic group defined by their genealogical descent from the first waves of Southern Chinese settlers to maritime Southeast Asia, known as Nanyang (Chinese: 南洋; pinyin: nán yáng; lit.

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The expression `to get fired` comes from long ago Clans that wanted to get rid of unwanted people, so they would burn their houses instead of killing them, creating the term `Got fired`.

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Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.

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One unspayed female dog, her mate and their puppies can produce 67,000 puppies in six years.

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Lukács has been described as the preeminent Marxist intellectual of the Stalinist era, though assessing his legacy can be difficult as Lukács seemed both to support Stalinism as the embodiment of Marxist thought, and yet also to champion a return to pre-Stalinist Marxism.

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Most art of the last 200 years has been produced without reference to religion and often with no particular ideology at all, but art has often been influenced by political issues, whether reflecting the concerns of patrons or the artist.

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Tiruchirappalli's recorded history begins under Chola rule in the 3rd century BC.

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The total mass of all the asteroids combined is only 3% that of Earth's Moon.

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Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

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Prehistoric Egypt and Predynastic Egypt was the period of time starting at the first human occupation of the region and ending at the First Dynasty of Egypt around 3100 BC.

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The case concerned the constitutionality of a 2018 Mississippi state law that banned most abortion operations after the first 15 weeks of pregnancy.

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A dog can locate the source of a sound in 1/600 of a second and can hear sounds four times farther away than a human can.

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Many countries already have renewables contributing more than 20% of their total energy supply, with some generating over half or even all their electricity from renewable sources.

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Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

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The building's groundbreaking took place in January 2008, but only the lower stories were built because the skyscraper lacked an anchor tenant.

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In February 2023, Moscow was the first in the world to reduce the intervals of metro trains to 80 seconds.

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Although strictly speaking "folklore" is only that cultural expression that meets the requirements of being anonymous, popular and traditional, in Argentina folklore or folkloric music is known as popular music of known authorship, inspired by rhythms and styles characteristic of provincial cultures, mostly of indigenous and Afro-Hispanic-colonial roots.

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Like most related hawks, Cooper's hawks prefer to nest in tall trees with extensive canopy cover and can commonly produce up to two to four fledglings depending on conditions.

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In recent years, some Austinites have adopted the unofficial slogan "Keep Austin Weird", which refers to the desire to protect small, unique, and local businesses from being overrun by large corporations.

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The research history of Anoplotherium spans back to 1804 when Georges Cuvier first described the fossils of this extinct artiodactyl and named the genus after describing Palaeotherium, making it one of the first fossil mammal genera to be described as well as having one of the earliest official taxonomic authorities.

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The first fossils of Diplodocus were discovered in 1877 by S.

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After the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs (birds being the only surviving dinosaurs) and several mammalian groups, placental and marsupial mammals diversified into many new forms and ecological niches throughout the Paleogene and Neogene, by the end of which all modern orders had appeared.

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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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Although the impact of tsunamis is limited to coastal areas, their destructive power can be enormous, and they can affect entire ocean basins.

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Perception is not only the passive receipt of these signals, but it is also shaped by the recipient's learning, memory, expectation, and attention.

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Lizards can self-amputate their tails for protection. It grows back after a few months.

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In Old England, the word "hound" was used to refer to all types of dogs.

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In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

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A duck`s quack doesn`t echo, and no one knows why.

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Some studies believe that dogs started to be domesticated 33,000 years ago.

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As of May 2018, Pokémon Go had over 147 million monthly active users and had been downloaded more than 1 billion times worldwide by early 2019.

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"Parasite" Bong Joon-ho zdobył Oscara za najlepszy film, co było przełomowym momentem dla kina pozaanglojęzycznego, uwypuklając jednocześnie globalną krytykę nierówności społecznych.

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Decyzja K'a o poświęceniu własnego życia dla uratowania replicantów w "Blade Runner 2049" stanowi kulminacyjny punkt jego poszukiwań tożsamości i człowieczeństwa.

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Centralnym konfliktem w "Pulp Fiction" Quentina Tarantino jest zestawienie pozornie niezwiązanych ze sobą historii postaci z półświatka, które splatają się w nieoczekiwany sposób, tworząc galerię nietuzinkowych bohaterów.

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Film "Diuna" w reżyserii Denisa Villeneuve'a eksploruje motyw ekologiczny, podkreślając kruchość i znaczenie zasobów naturalnych w kontekście walki o władzę.

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Adaptacja "Blade Runner 2049" rozbudowuje filozoficzne wątki pierwowzoru, koncentrując się na pytaniu o tożsamość i człowieczeństwo w świecie przyszłości.

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Centralnym motywem "Kill Bill" jest zemsta, która napędza główne działania bohaterki, ale jednocześnie prowadzi do spirali przemocy, podważając ostatecznie jej sens.

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Motyw przemiany Paula Atrydy w "Diunie" jest przedstawiony jako nieunikniony, lecz okupiony wieloma poświęceniami, co stanowi centralny konflikt jego podróży.

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Scenariusz "Oppenheimera" nielinearnie przedstawia rozwój postaci tytułowego bohatera, skłaniając widza do refleksji nad jego złożonością moralną.

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Adaptacja powieści Franka Herberta "Diuna" w reżyserii Denisa Villeneuve'a (2021) z sukcesem przenosi na ekran skomplikowany świat politycznych intryg, religijnych proroctw i technologicznych cudów, stawiając jednocześnie pytania o kolonializm i ekologię.

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Reżyseria Denisa Villeneuve'a i zdjęcia Rogera Deakinsa w filmie "Blade Runner 2049" (2017) tworzą hipnotyzującą, postapokaliptyczną wizję przyszłości, w której estetyka wizualna odgrywa równie ważną rolę co fabuła.

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Film "Parasite" (2019) wywołał szerokie dyskusje na temat nierówności społecznych i klasowych, czego dowodem jest jego bezprecedensowy sukces na międzynarodowych festiwalach i galach nagród, w tym zdobycie Oscara za najlepszy film.

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Joaquin Phoenix wcielając się w postać Arthura Flecka w filmie "Joker" (2019) kreuje bohatera targanego chorobą psychiczną i społecznym wykluczeniem, którego stopniowa transformacja w tytułowego antagonistę jest kluczowym elementem narracji.

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The first edition, self published by the author in 1891, received positive to mixed reviews, but book sales did not produce significant revenue.

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By the middle of the 19th century, Gothic Revival had become the pre-eminent architectural style in the Western world, only to begin to fall out of fashion in the 1880s and early 1890s.

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The biotic pump describes how water vapor given off by trees can drive winds and these winds can cross continents and deliver this moisture to far off forests.

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