Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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No one knows Albert Einstein's last words. Just before he passed, he spoke several words in German, but his nurse only knew English.
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It's possible to die from a broken heart; it's called Stress Cardiomyopathy.
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There is a persistent storm in Venezuela that produces lightning 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours per day and up to 280 times per hour and has been going since at least the 16th century.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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