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- The redlined Butterfly fish
The redlined Butterfly fish has a stink around its eye, which is a disguise in front of other fishes, and...
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- A flea
A flea can jump a 100 times its height. If a person had this ability, s/he could jump the Eiffel...
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- Glow-worm
Glow-worm is the common name for different groups of insect, which glow through bioluminescence. They may sometimes resemble worms, but...
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- Meteors
Meteors are extra-terrestrial fragments of material that are destroyed when they enter the atmosphere.
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- 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...
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- Palau Republic (Polynesia)
Palau Republic (Polynesia) has more than 1500 species of fish and 700 types of coral inside its reefs. However, the...
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- Light
Light is the fastest thing in Universe; it travels at 186.000 miles/sec (300.000 Km./sec.)
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- The longest
The longest river on Earth is in Africa: the Nile.
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- The oldest
The oldest pine-tree on Earth is 4.700 years old.
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- The biggest
The biggest animal on Earth is the blue whale.
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- Argelia
Argelia has the tallest dunes on Earth.
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- 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...
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- Island
Island has the most ancient parliament in Europe and its capital, Reykjavik, is the world’s most northern city.
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- Samis
Samis have 400 different words to refer to reindeers.
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- Dinosaur
Dinosaur means terrible lizard in classic Greek.
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