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Did You Know? Neptune was the first planet to get its existence predicted by calculations before it was actually seen by a telescope.

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Did You Know? Everyday, the Earth gets 100 tons heavier due to falling meteoroids and sometimes even big rocks.

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Did You Know? In 1937, a major fire broke out at the Fox Film studios in New Jersey. The fire destroyed 75% of their movies, including most of their silent films.

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Did You Know? The Flintstones was the most profitable network cartoon franchise for 30 years, that’s before The Simpsons came along.

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Did You Know? A single year lasts only 88 days on Mercury, but thanks again to its slow rotation, a day lasts twice as long!

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Did You Know? It takes about 8 minutes for sunlight to travel from the Sun to the Earth.

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Did You Know? Krusty the Clown was originally created to be Homer Simpson's secret identity.

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Did You Know? Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of Pokemon, is autistic.

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Did You Know? Jellyfish "Turritopsis Dohrnii" are considered biologically immortal. They don’t age and will never die unless they are killed.

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Did You Know? The TV sitcom Seinfeld was originally called ‘The Seinfeld Chronicles‘.

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Did You Know? There‘s actually a small village in England called ‘Bitchfield‘.

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Did You Know? The Roman – Persian wars are the longest in history, lasting over 680 years. They began in 54 BC and ended in 628 AD.

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Did You Know? Pablo Picasso was accused of stealing the Mona Lisa.

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Did You Know? Camels are born without humps.

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Did You Know? The early years of Picasso – he had to burn his own paintings for warmth in his freezing Paris apartment.

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Did You Know? When snakes are born with two heads they fight each other for food.

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Did You Know? Most ginger cats are male.

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Did You Know? A donkey named Monika retired from the Mariinsky ballet in St Petersburg, Russia, in 2008 after 19 years in the ballet Don Quixote.

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Did You Know? When a cat blinks slowly at you, it’s a sign of affection referred to as a ‘kitty kiss’.

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Did You Know? The male scaly cricket "Ornebius Aperta" from Australia can copulate more than 50 times in three to four hours, all with the same female.

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Did You Know? Houseflies find sugar with their feet, which are 10 million times more sensitive than human tongues.

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Did You Know? Hippos use their sweat as sunscreen.

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Did You Know? The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years.

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Did You Know? Surgeons who play video games at least 3 hours a week perform 27% -faster and make 37% -fewer errors.

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Did You Know? The first spacecraft to visit Mars was Mariner 4 in 1965.

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Did You Know? Sunsets on Mars are blue.

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Did You Know? There‘s a cruise ship named ‘The World‘ where residents permanently live as it travels around the globe.

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Did You Know? India has the most post offices than any other country (over 100,000).

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Did You Know? All clownfish are born male. When the female of the group dies, the most dominant male will turn female.

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Did You Know? Pringles were first sold in America in 1968 but were not popular until the mid-1970s.

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Did You Know? When Pink Floyd designed the “Animals” album cover, the inflatable pig tied to the power station broke free, causing Heathrow Airport to cancel all their flights.

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Did You Know? The first African-American to walk in space was a UH(University of Houston) alum, Bernard Harris.

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Did You Know? A study of the effects of music levels on drinking in a bar setting has found that loud music leads to more drinking in less time.

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Did You Know? Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1911, which drew more visitors to see the empty space than the actual painting.

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Did You Know? Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.

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Did You Know? 'Grammar Pedantry Syndrome' is a form of OCD where someone has a compulsive desire to correct every grammatical error.

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Did You Know? The collective name for a group of unicorns is called a blessing.

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Did You Know? A dentist named Alfred Southwick invented the electric chair.

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Did You Know? The oldest cockroach fossils are over 280 million years old.

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Did You Know? On the average, there are 200 tiny seeds on every strawberry.

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Did You Know? Holding hands with someone you love can alleviate physical pain as well as stress and fear.

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Did You Know? The peach was the first fruit to be eaten on the moon.

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Did You Know? Herpetophobia is the fear of reptiles.

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Did You Know? In 2010, there was a major traffic jam in China that lasted for 12 days.

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Did You Know? Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.

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Did You Know? Turkey vultures use defensive vomit to get rid of any disturbing animal. They can propel their vomit up to 10 feet.

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Did You Know? Medical errors are the 6th leading cause of the death in the U.S.

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Did You Know? It takes Uranus 84 years to orbit the Sun once.

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Did You Know? There exists a plankton, Dinoflagellates, which if consumed, reverses your feeling of hot and cold – as well as hallucinations. Symptoms can last from weeks to years.

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Did You Know? Nokia was founded in 1865 and its primary business was manufacturing paper. Nokia’s first mobile phones were released in the 1980’s.

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