Venice Island was built on a foundation of tree trunks. 1200 years later, those same trunks still support almost all of central Venice.
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Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
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Ants have tiny magnetic compasses in their antennae which help them navigate.
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Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
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The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
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The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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