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Uranus has the coldest planetary atmosphere in the Solar System, with a minimum temperature of -371.56 °F (−224 °C).♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 2009, snipers were deployed in Australia to protect a colony of little penguins from predators.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Octopus wrestling was a popular sport in the 1960s. A diver would fight an octopus in shallow water and drag it to the surface.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Scientists want to introduce global warming on Mars to make life habitable for colonization.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The last surviving Civil War widow didn't pass away until 2008. She married an 86-year-old veteran when she was only 19.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Anne Frank is on YouTube. She was captured on film while leaning out of her window to get a good look of a wedding.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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After 9/11, the Maasai tribe of Kenya gave 14 of their most important cattle to America as aid.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Being hit by lightning causes weird skin designs called "Lichtenberg figures."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The weird bright dots you see floating when you look at the sky are your white blood cells.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A man can be arrested in Italy for wearing a skirt in public.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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There is a gypsy tribe in India that celebrates death as one of the happiest events in their lives, while treating births with great grief.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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If New York City were its own country and the NYPD was its army, it would be the 20-best-funded army in the world.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The youngest king ever was Alfonso XIII of Spain, who became king the day he was born.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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During a visit to Egypt in 2012, Hillary Clinton was pelted with tomatoes and shoes, while the protesters chanted "Monica, Monica".♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Almost a third of the world's languages are spoken only in Africa.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A koi fish named "Hanako" lived for 225 years.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Antarctica is almost 1.5 times the size of the U.S.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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There were over 10 million koalas before British settlers arrived in Australia. Now, there are around 43,000 in the wild.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Cats can dream. They produce the same brain wave patterns that we do when we dream.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The company that created Zyklon B, the gas that was used to kill millions of Jews in the Holocaust, still exists as a pest control company.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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During WW2, the Japanese invaded Alaska, and more Americans were killed or wounded defending Alaska than at Pearl Harbor.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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20% of the Earth's oxygen is produced by the Amazon rainforest.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Abraham Lincoln practiced law without a degree. He had less than 12 months of formal schooling.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Ikea names sofas, coffee tables and bookshelves after places in Sweden; beds, wardrobes and hall furniture after places in Norway; carpets after places in Denmark and dining tables and chairs after places in Finland.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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People drink more slowly when alcohol is served in straight-sided glasses than when it's served in glasses with curved sides, a research found.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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789 grams of 2,700-year-old marijuana were found in a Chinese tomb in 2008.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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California has built 23 prisons since 1980. In the same period, the University of California system has opened just one new campus.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Alcohol is prohibited in the UK Parliament with one exception: the chancellor can drink while delivering the annual budget statement.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 2008, wine started flowing through taps in dozens of homes during a grape festival in Italy due to a technical error.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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37%of Americans think global warming is a hoax.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
