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A group of flamingos is called a "flamboyance."

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Amy Poehler was only seven years older than Rachel McAdams when she took on the role of "cool mom" in Mean Girls.

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Carrots were originally purple in color, the orange ones we know today emerged from the Netherlands in the 1600s.

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Venus is the only planet in our solar system to spin clockwise.

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Beethoven composed his Ninth Symphony while he was completely deaf.

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Chocolate, or rather the cacao bean, was used as currency by Aztecs Mayans.

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The continent of Asia has both the highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest point (Dead Sea) in the world.

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The first commercially successful video game was "Pong", created by Atari in 1972. This simple simulation of table tennis marked the start of the video gaming industry.

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Bamboo is the fastest-growing plant on Earth. In fact, the Chinese mōsō bamboo can grow almost a meter in a single day.

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Olympic gold medals are not made entirely of gold. They are mostly made of silver, with at least 6 grams of gold plating.

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Some sea otters hold hands while sleeping to help prevent drifting apart.

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Honey never spoils; archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3000 years old but still edible.

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There are over 8000 active man-made satellites orbiting Earth.

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Legolas only exchanges one line with Frodo in the entire Lord of The Rings trilogy, the line being "And you have my bow".

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Minecraft is the best selling video game of all time at an approximate of 300 million copies sold, beating Grand Theft Auto V and Tetris.

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Vatican City is the smallest state in the world not only by area but also population.

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With 5 wins Brazil is the country that has won the most world cups and is also one of only two countries to have won consecutive titles.

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The Spice Girls didn't choose their own name but rather an article in the magazine Top of the Pops gave each member a nickname based on their personality.

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Your nose is always in your field of vision but your brain filters it out, thanks brain!

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Cleopatra lived closer in time to today than she did to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

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It's believed that it rains diamonds deep within Neptune and Uranus.

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One of the primary ways honey bees communicate through is dance, known as the "waggle dance".

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Cashews grow on trees in fruits called cashew apples, each apple produces only one cashew!

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There are more trees on Earth than there are stars in The Milky Way and these trees produce about 30% of all oxygen in the air!

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The video game Sims has its own language called Simlish which is a combination of multiple real languages. "Sul Sul" is hello in Simlish!

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Your eyes have a separate immune system from your regular one, called the ocular immune system.

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43% of NBA championships have been won by two teams, The Lakers and The Celtics.

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None of The Beatles could read or write music.

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Fantasmagorie, a french animated film from 1908, is considered to be one of the earliest examples of traditional hand-drawn animation.

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A camel can drink 200 liters (53 gallons) of water in three minutes. They also have three eyelids to protect from blowing desert sand.

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The coldest star found has a surface temperature of under 100 degrees celsius, lower than the boiling point of water!

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There are over 3 billion gamers worldwide!

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There are over 700 hieroglyphs in the ancient Egyptian alphabet, some representing single sounds and others representing the object the letter looks like.

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The fruit salad tree can grow multiple types of fruit like apricots, peaches and plums all on the same tree!

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The North Pole only has one sunrise and sunset every year. In the summer the sun is always above the horizon and below it in the winter.

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The world record for holding one's breath underwater the longest is 24 minutes and 37 seconds.

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A group of crows is called a "murder of crows". Spooky!

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The original name for Luke Skywalker from the Star Wars franchise was Luke Starkiller.

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The cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov was the first person to play a video game in space, he played Tetris on the Game Boy.

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The longest professional baseball game took place in 1981 and was between the Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox. It went on for 8 hours and 25 minutes

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The International Space Station orbits around the Earth once every 90 minutes, that's 16 round trips a day!

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Peanuts aren't nuts but legumes and grow underground like beans and lentils.

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