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Did You Know? There is no universal sign language.

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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? 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? Hippos use their sweat as sunscreen.

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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? 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? 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? The Lion King was originally called “King of the Jungle” before they realized that lions don’t actually live in jungles.

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Did You Know? Suriphobia is the fear of mice.

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Did You Know? The Grand Canyon can hold around 900 trillion footballs.

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Did You Know? Sonic the Hedgehog’s full name is actually Ogilvie Maurice Hedgehog.

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Did You Know? There is a punctuation mark used to signify irony or sarcasm that looks like a backwards question mark ⸮

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Did You Know? The Rolling Stones' tongue logo design was inspired by the Indian Hindu goddess Kali The Destroyer.

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Did You Know? Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote 23 original concertos for piano and orchestra.

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Did You Know? The voice actor of SpongeBob and the voice actor of Karen, Plankton’s computer wife, have been married since 1995.

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Did You Know? Watching horror movies can burn more calories than any other genre. The increase in heart rates and adrenaline means more calories burned.

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Did You Know? Ralph Lauren’s real name was Ralph Lifshitz.

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Did You Know? Tom Hanks had an asteroid named after him which was called “12818 tomhanks“.

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Did You Know? William Hung, made famous for his appearance on American Idol singing “She Bangs“, is a 73rd generation descendant of Confucius.

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Did You Know? When signing up to iTunes, if you accept their Terms & Conditions, you agree to not use it to make nuclear weapons.

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Did You Know? South African scientists have discovered that 400-year-old tobacco pipes excavated from the garden of William Shakespeare contained cannabis.

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Did You Know? A mom from England was so emotionally affected by venephobia, a fear of veins, begged doctor to amputate her legs despite there being nothing wrong with them.

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Did You Know? Mastercard was originally called mastercharge

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Did You Know? The world's tallest model Amazon Eve, also known for her role in American Horror Story, was born a male.

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Did You Know? William Shakespeare had a curse engraved on his tombstone to prevent anyone from moving his bones.

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Did You Know? Horses and cows can sleep standing up, but they don‘t experience full REM sleep unless they lie down.

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Did You Know? Morphine is named after 'Morpheus', the Greek god of dreams.

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Did You Know? The Walking Dead cast and crew holds ‘death dinners‘ for any characters who get killed off the show.

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Did You Know? 'I Gotta Feeling' by The Black Eyed Peas sold more copies than any Elvis Presley single when it was first released.

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Did You Know? The 1831 London Bridge was sold in 1962 when it needed to be replaced. It was bought by Lake Havasu City, Arizona, to help tourism.

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Did You Know? The color of white wine gets darker as it ages, while red wine gets lighter in color.

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Did You Know? Disappointment Island is an uninhabited island in New Zealand. Over 65,000 pairs of white-capped albatross live there.

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Did You Know? J.K. Rowling was the 1st person to ever become a billionaire by writing books.

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Did You Know? Illegal drug possession and trafficking are punished in Singapore with the death penalty.

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Did You Know? Tarantula spiders can survive 2 and a half years without food.

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Did You Know? Hedwig, Harry Potter's owl, is named after the patron saint of orphaned and abandoned children.

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Did You Know? Frankenstein author Mary Shelley kept her dead husband’s heart and carried it with her for almost 30 years until she died in 1851. It was found in a desk drawer a year later, wrapped in a copy of one of his final poems.

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Did You Know? William Shakespeare was born and died on the same day, April 23.

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Did You Know? The longest street in the world is Yonge street in Toronto Canada measuring 1,896 km (1,178 miles).

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Did You Know? There are more volcanoes on Venus than any other planet within our Solar System.

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Did You Know? Washington Square in New York used to be a cemetery with over 20,000 people buried there.

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Did You Know? Every year, nearly 4 million cats are eaten in China as a delicacy.

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Did You Know? Originally, the Pokémon Vulpix was going to be called “FoxFire”.

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Did You Know? Mulan has the highest kill-count of any Disney character, including villains, and was the first Disney Princess to be shown killing people on-screen.

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Did You Know? Cucumber can actually cure bad breath. A slice pressed to the roof of your mouth for 30 seconds with your tongue allows the phytochemicals to kill the problematic bacteria.

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Did You Know? If you keep going North, you will eventually go South but, if you keep going East, you will never go West.

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Did You Know? The body of the Cowardly Lion costume used in the Wizard of Oz is made of real lion skin and fur, and the mane is made of human hair.

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Did You Know? The ‘Cobra Effect‘ is where an attempted solution to a problem actually makes the problem worse.

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