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the
longest comet tail recorded was that of the Great Comet of 1843, which
was 330 million km long?
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the
Australian Great Barrier Reef and the Great Wall of China are so large
that you can see them from the moon without using a telescope?
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Parliament
offered Cromwell the crown but he refused?
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on
the surface of the
Moon, the temperature ranges
from -75 degrees to
150 degrees Celsius?
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in
1642, King Charles entered the House of Commons to look for 5 members of
Parliament, for that reason Queen Elizabeth is not allowed to enter the
House of Commons?
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thousands
of children set off on a children's crusade in 1212? Those who survived
were sold into slavery?
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one
third of Norway lies on the Arctic Circle; this part is known as "The Land
of the Midnight Sun" because the Sun never sets between June and July?
During December and January, it's dark for almost 24 hours?
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in
the South and North Poles the sun never sets for 6 months and never rises
for another 6 months?
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dogs
are colour-blind, that means everything they see is black and white?
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20
million Russians were killed
in World
War 2, 7 million
of them were civilians?
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the
ancestors of dogs are wolves?
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the
Earth has a mass of 5,976 million million million tonnes?
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about
100,000 people were needed to build the largest pyramids in Egypt?
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a
flash of lightning has a voltage of 100 million volts while a torch has
only one and a half a volts?
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in
Britain, when popular TV programmes end, the demand for electricity can
increase by 10% as people start to make hot drinks?
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sugar
is made out of the elements hydrogen, carbon and oxygen?
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an
adult elephants eats about 150 kg of grass, leaves, twigs and fruits each
day?
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African
elephants weight 7500 kg?
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the
heaviest single tusk weighed 105 kg?
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as
a child, Queen Elizabeth I had 4 different stepmothers?
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