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Cherries are a member of the rose family (Rosaceae) as are quince, pears, plums, apples, peaches and raspberries!
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Regardless of their size, naval tradition declares submarines be called “boats” rather than “ships.”
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Hedy Lamar was a famous Hollywood film actress who also invented what became modern day Wi-Fi.
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After landing in Ireland after her first solo Atlantic flight, a farmer asked Amelia Earhart where she was from. When she said America, he almost didn't believe her!
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Frederick Douglass birth name was Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. When he married he chose the last name Douglass after the hero clan in Sir Walter Scott's famous poem, Lady of the Lake.
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Frida Kahlo created 143 paintings. Of these, 55 were self-portraits.
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Babe Ruth was the first baseball player to hit a home run in the All-Star game, at Chicago’s Comiskey Park in 1933.
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Clouds look white because they are reflecting sunlight from above them.
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Yuma, Arizona gets over 4000 hours of sunshine a year, making it the sunniest place on earth. The least sunny place is the South Pole, where the sun only shines on 182 days a year. (Which would you rather live in?)
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Rain contains vitamin B12.
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A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the sun.
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A hurricane releases enough energy in one second to equal that of 10 atomic bombs.
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It can be too warm to snow, but never too cold.
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Tropical storms and hurricanes started getting "named" in 1953.
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You can tell the weather by counting a cricket's chirps!
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The moon is very hot (224 degrees Fahrenheit, average) during the day but very cold (-243 degrees average) at night.
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Jupiter is the fastest spinning planet in the solar system (it only takes about 10 hours to complete a full rotation on its axis).
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Sound does not carry in space.
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The Earth's core is as hot as the surface of the sun.
Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian.
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The very first animals in space were fruit flies...they were sent up in 1947 and recovered alive.
The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.
St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers.
St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers.
Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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In 2011, ten-year-old Kathryn Aurora Gray discovered a supernova (a star that has run out of energy, explodes and then collapses before it dies) that no one else had seen before.
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Only half of the dolphin’s brain goes to sleep when asleep and the other half stays awake.
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Other than humans, emperor penguins are the only warm-blooded animal to stay on Antarctica for the winter.
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The biggest fossil of a spider was found in China. It is one-inch long and 165 million years old.
If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium.