😳 Mr. Potato Head was the first toy to be advertised on TV.

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Jay Z, Busta Rhymes, The Notorious B.I.G and DMX all attended the same high school in New York and would battle rap on their lunch breaks. They attended George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School in downtown Brooklyn.

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🐈 Cats can make more than 100 vocalizations. Unlike dogs, who mostly bark, cats have a wide vocal range.

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Sheffield FC is the oldest soccer club recognised by FIFA, having been founded in October 1857.

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😳 The world's termites outweigh the world's humans by about 10 to 1. They greatly outnumber us, and for every person there are about 453 kg of termites.

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😳 Children tend to grow faster in the spring.

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🐟 If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white. Goldfish have pigment in their skin that reacts to light.

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Magpies help other animals by plucking ticks and other parasites from their skins. They can pull them out even if they have a strong grip.

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🐌 A snail breathes through its foot.

😳 Air does not enter and exit through the mouth but through the pneumostome (breathing hole) which is located on the side, under the shell of the snail.

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🌞Sunsets on Mars are blue.

Fine dust in the atmosphere permits blue light to penetrate the atmosphere more efficiently than colors with longer wavelengths. 🎆

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🐪 Despite their hump, camels have straight spines.

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😱 Mosquitoes have 47 teeth. Which they use to saw through skin.

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People have better ideas in the shower because warm water raises dopamine, a brain chemical that boosts creativity. Showering distracts the mind, helping it stop stressing over problems and work on solutions quietly. Doing a simple, relaxing task like showering makes it easier for new ideas to pop up. 🧠🚿

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🎂 You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

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🤔 People don't sneeze in their sleep due to their brain shutting down the reflex.

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😳 The youngest pope in history was Pope Benedict IX, aged about 20 when first elected. He is also the only person to have been the pope more than once. He ruled for three periods between October 1032 and July 1048.

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Who invented television?

Philo Farnsworth invented television in 1927 by pioneering an all-electronic system.

Inspired as a teenager by the idea of scanning images with electrons, he developed the "image dissector," a cathode ray tube that captured light, converted it into an electrical signal, and transmitted it.

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🤔 According to Guinness World Records, Robert Wadlow of the United States (1918–1940) was the tallest person in recorded history, measuring 272 cm (8 ft 11 in) at the time of his death. 😱

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