Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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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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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day.
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The male seahorse carries babies and 'gives birth' to them instead of the female.
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In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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A strawberry is not a berry, but a banana is.
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