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the
distance around the Earth at the equator is 40,077 km (24,903 miles)?
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at
any place on the Equator the Sun is directly overhead at midday on March
21 and September 23?
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in
a horse-race in Britain
the winner and runner-up
were both female horses?
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places
at the Equator can have 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness?
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Jesus
Christ wasn't born on 0 AD but he was actually born on 4 BC?
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Europe
is named after a Phoenician princess Europa?
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the
oldest maps found are Babylonian; they were drawn on tablets more than
20,000 years?
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99%
of all the animal species that have ever lived are now extinct?
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through
blinking you send half an hour of your working day with your eyes closed?
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the
temperature of the flames from a gas cooker is about 2000 degrees Celsius?
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the
largest fish, the whale shark, weighs over 40 tonnes?
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there
are more species of fish than there are of mammals, birds, reptiles and
amphibians put together?
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an
ocean sunfish can lay as many as 300 million eggs but only a few hatch?
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the
biggest flower is Raffliesa, which grows up to 1 metre across?
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one
child dies every 5
minutes in Iraq because
of the economic sanctions?
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rice
is the main food for more than half of the people of the world?
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one
of the earliest known recipes was written on stone by the Egyptians in
1600 BC? It was for making sweets!
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in
1789 Louis XVI wrote in his diary "July 14: nothing," actually July 14
was the beginning of the French Revolution which was resulted in the execution
of Louis himself and its now the national day in France?
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the
golden dart-poison frog from South America is so poisonous that one adult
contains enough poison to kill 2,200 people?
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the
hyphae (threads of cells) of some rainforest fungi can spread for up to
500 m under the soil?
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