In Turkish, the bird we call a Turkey is called "Hindi" ("from India"). In India, it's called "Peru." In Arabic, the bird is called "Greek chicken"; in Greek it's called "French chicken"; and in French it's called "Indian chicken." The bird is indigenous to none of these places.
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Chanel Tapper, a student from California, USA, has the world's longest tongue, measuring 9.75 cm (3.8 inches), from tip to top lip!
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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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There is a city called "Batman" in Turkey.
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The male seahorse carries babies and 'gives birth' to them instead of the female.
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In 1992, 29,000 rubber ducks washed off a ship. They were found thousands of miles away 8 years later.
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A British teenager changed his name in 2008 to Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined.
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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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