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Food
20 facts about beer
World’s third most popular beverage
Rome
Rome has two major football clubs.
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Entertainment
15 facts about StarCraft
The computer game classic of the 1990s
Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein is a doubly landlocked country.
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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
Poinsettia
In the intertropical area, this species is commonly grown in the ground as an ornamental plant.
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Biography
18 facts about Roland Garros
French pioneer of aviation who played tennis only a few times in his life
Mississippi River
It is home to 360 fish species, 50 mammal species, 326 bird species, and 145 amphibian species.
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Countries
24 facts about Sri Lanka
The “Land of Smiles”
Cities
27 facts about Rome
The Eternal City hides many fascinating secrets
Atacama Desert
The Atacama is a desert in South America.
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Plants
21 facts about Stinging nettle
An underrated source of health
StarCraft
The original plans for StarCraft were to tell the story of space vampires.
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Animals
14 facts about dik-dik
Hare-sized antelope
Kiwi bird
Their feathers evolved into a structure resembling hair.
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Culture
14 facts about Swan Lake
One of the world’s most famous ballet performances
Biography
23 facts about Kate Middleton
Catherine, Princess of Wales
Lake Superior
Lake Superior is very cold.
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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
Cane toad
Bufotoxin can also be fatal to humans.
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Plants
20 facts about carob
Ceratonia siliqua - a substitute for cocoa
Sting
Throughout his career, Sting has been and continues to be an ardent advocate of human rights and environmental issues.
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Biography
32 facts about Robert Oppenheimer
Father of the Atomic Bomb
Argentina
Buenos Aires has the world’s widest street.
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Culture
18 facts about Orsay Museum
France's second most visited museum after the Louvre
Hummingbirds
They feed on nectar, plant sap and small invertebrates.
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Culture
21 facts about ballet
History of the art of ballet through the ages
Vanilla
The Spanish, over time, began establishing vanilla plantations outside Central America.
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Technology
14 facts about steel
Just a bit of carbon changes everything
Hyacinth macaw
They are gentle and social birds.
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Animals
19 facts about Sea otter
Animals nearly extinct due to fur trade
Fleas
Fleas are parasitic insects of mammals and birds.
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Animals
18 facts about Alpaca
Highly intelligent, swift learning and gentle animals
Australia
Aboriginal civilization is the oldest on Earth. It is estimated that aborigines have lived in Australia for about 40 – 60 thousand years.
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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
Tennis
Women were not allowed into Wimbledon until 1884.
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Culture
21 facts about The Scream by Edvard Munch
A symbol of anxiety about the human condition
Turkey
Despite being a Muslim country, polygamy in Turkey is forbidden.
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Biography
22 facts about Hypatia
Prominent scholar murdered by an angry Christian mob
Colosseum
During the first years since it has been opened, it hosted naumachia—naval battles.
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History
25 facts about Troy
A forgotten ancient city returned to history from mythology
Notre-Dame
The towers were the last sizable element of the cathedral to be built. They were not built simultaneously; construction of the southern tower began first.
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Biography
17 facts about Homer
Blind wanderer, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
Japan
Japanese trains are one of the most punctual in the world, with an average delay of 18 seconds.
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