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Food
20 facts about beer
World’s third most popular beverage
England
Queen Elizabeth II is related to Vlad the Impaler, best known as Count Dracula.
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Entertainment
15 facts about StarCraft
The computer game classic of the 1990s
Animals
12 facts about capybaras
The world’s largest rodent and social media star
Geography
20 facts about Amazon River
Its basin covers nearly half of South America
Food
13 facts about churro
A dessert worth the sin
Mount St. Helens
In 1982, the area surrounding the volcano was declared as a National Volcanic Monument.
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Biography
18 facts about Roland Garros
French pioneer of aviation who played tennis only a few times in his life
Mount Vesuvius
Mount Vesuvius is a stratovolcano.
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Countries
24 facts about Sri Lanka
The “Land of Smiles”
Mohenjo-daro
Scientists do not know what could have caused the destruction of the Mohenjo-daro culture, which occurred around the middle of the second millennium B.C.
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Cities
27 facts about Rome
The Eternal City hides many fascinating secrets
Arabian oryx
The Arabian oryx has the ability to detect rain and follow its direction.
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Plants
21 facts about Stinging nettle
An underrated source of health
Animals
14 facts about dik-dik
Hare-sized antelope
Culture
14 facts about Swan Lake
One of the world’s most famous ballet performances
Hummingbirds
There are only two pigments in hummingbird feathers - black and brown.
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Biography
23 facts about Kate Middleton
Catherine, Princess of Wales
Hippopotamus
They obtain food mainly on land.
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Architecture
18 facts about Forbidden City
Largest Palace in the World
Biography
23 facts about Charles III
King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland of the Windsor dynasty
Plants
20 facts about carob
Ceratonia siliqua - a substitute for cocoa
Stinging nettle
For medicinal purposes, nettle leaves are harvested before flowering, roots are dug up in fall or early spring, and the whole plant is used.
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Biography
32 facts about Robert Oppenheimer
Father of the Atomic Bomb
Culture
18 facts about Orsay Museum
France's second most visited museum after the Louvre
Hawksbill sea turtle
Females chose the same place they hatched as their nesting grounds.
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Culture
21 facts about ballet
History of the art of ballet through the ages
Technology
14 facts about steel
Just a bit of carbon changes everything
Housefly
The thorax of a housefly is dark gray and covered with darker stripes.
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Animals
19 facts about Sea otter
Animals nearly extinct due to fur trade
Tiger sharks
The average lifespan of a tiger shark is 27 years in the wild.
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Animals
18 facts about Alpaca
Highly intelligent, swift learning and gentle animals
Judaism
Rabbinic Judaism, also known as Talmudic Judaism, takes its name from the Talmud, a collection of rabbinic teachings, both in the form of a commentary on the Mishnah and a commentary on the Bible, written in the 5th-7th centuries.
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Animals
24 facts about Coyote
North America's loudest wild mammal
Geography
25 facts about Galapagos Islands
Islands of the tortoises
Gulf of Mexico
It covers an area of approximately 1,6 million square kilometers.
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Culture
21 facts about The Scream by Edvard Munch
A symbol of anxiety about the human condition
Poison ivy
Urushiol is an organic compound that causes an allergic reaction in most people.
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Biography
22 facts about Hypatia
Prominent scholar murdered by an angry Christian mob
Lemon balm
It was introduced to central and northern Europe around the 7th century.
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History
25 facts about Troy
A forgotten ancient city returned to history from mythology
Jordan River
The Jordan River is a river in southwest Asia, the Middle East.
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Biography
17 facts about Homer
Blind wanderer, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey