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Bananas
🌍 General

Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.

Botanically speaking, a true berry is a fleshy fruit produced from a single ovary. Bananas fit the bill perfectly, but strawberries miss the mark!

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Human brain illustration
🧬 Science

Your brain uses about 20% of your body’s energy.

Even though it only accounts for about 2% of your total body weight, your brain is an absolute energy hog to keep all those thoughts and systems firing.

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Pyramids of Giza
🏛️ History

Cleopatra lived closer to the iPhone than the pyramids.

The Great Pyramid of Giza was built around 2560 BC. Cleopatra lived around 30 BC. The first iPhone? 2007. The math is truly mind-bending!

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Lakes in Canada
🌎 Geography

Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.

With an estimated 2 million lakes, Canada's vast landscape is absolutely dominated by fresh water. That is a whole lot of coastline to explore.

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Lion
🎬 Pop Culture

The "Lion King" was deeply inspired by Hamlet.

A royal uncle kills the king, the young prince is exiled, talks to his father's ghost, and returns to claim the throne. Shakespeare would be proud.

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Octopus underwater
🐾 Animal

Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.

Two of their hearts pump blood to the gills, and the third pumps it to the rest of the body. Their blood is copper-based, giving it a blue color!

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Planet in Space
🪐 Space

It literally rains diamonds on Jupiter and Saturn.

Lightning storms turn methane into soot, which hardens into chunks of graphite and then diamonds as it falls toward the planets' cores.

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Australia landscape
🌎 Geography

Australia is wider than the actual Moon.

The Moon is about 3,400 km (2,113 miles) in diameter. Australia's diameter from east to west is almost 4,000 km (2,485 miles)!

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Sea otter floating
🐾 Animal

Sea otters hold hands while they sleep.

They do this so they don't drift apart from each other in the ocean currents. They sometimes wrap themselves in kelp for extra anchor support.

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Woolly mammoth museum exhibit
🏛️ History

Woolly mammoths were alive when the pyramids were built.

Most died out 10,000 years ago, but a small population survived on Wrangel Island until 1650 BC—1,000 years *after* the Great Pyramid of Giza was finished.

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Shark teeth close-up
🧬 Human Body

Human teeth are just as strong as shark teeth.

Sharks might look scarier, but a study found that the enamel on a human wisdom tooth is just as hard as the enamel coating a shark's tooth.

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Pringles chips can
🎬 Weird Facts

The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.

Fredric Baur was so proud of his invention that he requested his ashes be buried in an original Pringles can. His children bought a can on the way to the funeral home.

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