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  • Blacktip reef shark
    Blacktip reef shark can never stop swimming, otherwise they drown and die.

  • A flea
    A flea can jump a 100 times its height. If a person had this ability, s/he could jump the Eiffel...

  • Glow-worm
    Glow-worm is the common name for different groups of insect, which glow through bioluminescence. They may sometimes resemble worms, but...

  • Meteors
    Meteors are extra-terrestrial fragments of material that are destroyed when they enter the atmosphere.

  • Magnetic Northern-Pole
    Magnetic Northern-Pole is the point where a compass needle remains immobile, and it's situated in front of Bathurst Island, in...

  • Palau Republic (Polynesia)
    Palau Republic (Polynesia) has more than 1500 species of fish and 700 types of coral inside its reefs. However, the...

  • Light
    Light is the fastest thing in Universe; it travels at 186.000 miles/sec (300.000 Km./sec.)

  • The longest
    The longest river on Earth is in Africa: the Nile.

  • The oldest
    The oldest pine-tree on Earth is 4.700 years old.

  • Argelia
    Argelia has the tallest dunes on Earth.

  • The longest railway
    The longest railway in the world is the Transiberian. It covers 5.800 miles (9.355 km). The second longest in the...

  • Island
    Island has the most ancient parliament in Europe and its capital, Reykjavik, is the world’s most northern city.

  • Samis
    Samis have 400 different words to refer to reindeers.

  • Dinosaur
    Dinosaur means terrible lizard in classic Greek.


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