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The International Space Station is the most expensive object ever made by humans. It has cost 160 billion dollars so far. Although Cape Town is the southernmost city in Africa its not the southernmost populated point in the continent. That’s Cape Agulhas which is roughly 100 miles (170km) southeast from Cape Town.

In 1968 Kip “Keino” almost arrived late to the Olympic 1,500 meter run, due to a traffic jam. He therefore left the car, ran the remaining 2.5 miles to the stadium and took home the gold medal. Researchers in Australia are working on a new condom made of cellulose that is 30 percent thinner but 20 percent more robust. The DNA among humans differs by just 0.1 percent. In comparison, a chimpanzee is genetically different from humans by 1.2 percent. At the age of five years and eleven months, Ayan Qureshi passed the “Microsoft Certified Professional Test”, making him the youngest computer specialist in the world. They can be up to 20m long and weigh up to 80 tonnes. These giant whales dive down to almost 3,000m below the surface where they hunt giant squid. Giant squid can be the same size or bigger than sperm whales and will fight viciously with them. Adult whales can be seen with scars on their heads from the beaks of giant squid. 19The US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln is operated by nuclear power and therefore only needs to be “refueled” every 25 years. Researchers from India recently discovered a new species of green pit vipers. They named the snake after Salazar Slytherin, one of the founders of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter universe. [24] Isaac Newton was a member of the British parliament for one year. He spoke only once, and that was to tell someone to please close the window. [10]

They are able to jump 10 inches (25cm) vertically and up to 18 inches (45 cm) horizontally, making them one of the planets best jumpers relative to its size. It’s equal to a human jumping as high as the Empire State Building in New York. 28. The male seahorse goes through pregnancy and gives birth to babies. They are the only animal on earth where the male carries the baby rather than the female.Schorr GS, Falcone EA, Moretti DJ, Andrews RD. First long-term behavioral records from Cuvier’s beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris) reveal record-breaking dives. PLoS One. 2014;9(3). doi:10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0092633 Pablo Picasso would often carry around a pistol loaded with blanks. He would fire it at people he found boring or anyone who insulted the Post-Impressionist painter, Paul Cézanne. [22] The first traffic light was installed in London outside the Houses of Parliament in 1868. Unfortunately, it exploded very soon, killing a policeman. The 1967 Space Treaty stipulates that no country has the right to annex or occupy a celestial body. At the same time, it prohibits the stationing of nuclear weapons in space or the establishment of a military base or military exercises on the moon. More than 100 states, including the USA and Russia, have signed this treaty. The longest living, verified animal is a Madagascar radiated tortoise, which died at an age of 188 years in May 1965.

Nintendo originally did not develop consoles and video games, but rather started off producing playing cards. Human fingers are so sensitive that they can feel objects of 13 nanometers in size. This means that if one finger was the size of the earth, it could feel the difference between a house and a car. Vampire bats need to eat blood at least every 48 hours to survive. Bats will share blood after a good meal with another bat that’s fed them in the past. 31 76. The U.S. military trained bottlenose dolphins. The Vatican has its own telephone company, its own radio station, its own TV station, its own stamps, its own currency and its own army. Cheerful Happiness Facts." Fact Retriever. August 19, 2017. Updated July 2, 2019. Accessed: July 26, 2020.

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The Pomato is a hybrid between a tomato and a potato. The plant produces both tomatoes and potatoes. Lions are powerful carnivores, meaning they primarily eat meat, and their diet consists mainly of large herbivores. It helps them absorb heat to keep warm, while the white fur helps provides camouflage in the snowy and icy environment they live. 41. Giant anteaters consume up to 35,000 ants and termites in a single day. The Wizard of Oz's Full Name is Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkel Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs. In the book, he explains that he called "myself O.Z., because the other initials were P-I-N-H-E-A-D." [38]