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Australia was inhabited by indigenous people for about 50,000 years before the British came.

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About 1 in 6 Jews killed in the Holocaust died at Auschwitz.

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At US$309 billion, Apple was the world's second most valuable brand in 2019. Amazon was first.

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Although myths and speculation about a Terra Australis ("Southern Land") date back to antiquity, Antarctica was only first sighted in 1820 by a Russian expedition.

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There is an annual conference on "boring things". In the past people have given talks on barcodes, sneezing and the sounds of vending machines.

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93% of dogs and 75 % of cats that go missing in the U.S. are returned safely, a study found.

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Out of 46,000 discovered species of spider, only a single one has been found to be a herbivore.

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D-Day was originally set for June 5 but had to be postponed for 24 hours due to bad weather.

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Cockroaches are served fried in China, Thailand and other Asian countries.

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More than 1 million people live in the Atacama desert, the driest place on earth, extracting water from aquifers and snowmelt streams and raising llamas and alpacas.

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Over one million Chinese

have moved to Africa since 2001.

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A 3-year-long College Major in Exorcism is offered at a Lutheran Parish in Argentina.

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About 50 different shark species glow in the dark. That's about 10% of all known sharks.

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The wars between Romans and Persians lasted about 721 years, the longest conflict in human history.

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Around 10% of the world's total fish species can be found just within the Great Barrier Reef.

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59%

of Americans would happily give up a kidney for US$50,000, a survey found.

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Machu Picchu was built around 1450 CE, less than 50 years before Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World.

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Empty Homes Outnumber The Homeless 6 To 1 in The U.S.

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Scientists can identify individual zebras by "scanning" their stripes like a barcode.

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The world's oldest university in continuous operation is in Africa: the University of Karueein, founded in 859 AD in Morocco.

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Scientists can locate colonies of Penguins from space just by looking for dark ice patches of penguin poop.

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Worldwide, around one quarter of pregnancies end in abortion. Nearly half are illegal.

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Almost four hundred billion trees

belonging to 16,000 different species grow in the Amazon rainforest.

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Joe Ranft, co-writer and co-director on the film "Cars," died in a car accident while the movie was still in production.

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The extreme sport of "Volcano surfing" was invented in 2004 at Cerro Negro, Nicaragua.

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The skin of a female shark is much thicker than that of a male

because males bite females during mating.

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The tuatara, a New Zealand reptile that pre-dates the dinosaurs, has three eyes.

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The 'de-militarized' zone between North and South Korea is the world's most militarized zone.

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Nearly 90 million children have spent their whole lives war zones, according to the UN.