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The largest snowflakes ever recorded were 15 inches wide. Guinness World Records lists the largest snowflakes as having fallen during a storm in January 1887 at Fort Keogh, in Montana. A nearby rancher, the book says, called them ‘larger than milk pans’.
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The African elephant, Loxodonta Africana, has the longest known gestation period of all mammals. These elephants carry their babies in the womb for around 660 days or 22 months. Camels and giraffes also carry their babies for a long time – about 400 days for both animals.
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A baby swan is called a cygnet, and the name of the constellation Cygnus is from the Latin word for swan.
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Napoleon had a healthy obsession with Australia his whole life. Had he won at Waterloo he intended to name part of Australia “Terre Napoléon” (Napoleon Land) and brought back 200+ species of Australian flora and fauna to France, making Josephiné the first person in history to breed black swans.
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Andre Agassi, one of the greatest ever male tennis players (and husband of Steffi Graf, one of the greatest ever female tennis players), wrote in his autobiography that “I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion, and always have”.
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The first modern coin-operated vending machines were invented by Percival Everitt in 1833. They were first introduced in London in the United Kingdom in the early 1880s, dispensing post cards. The machines were popular and soon became a widespread feature at railway stations and post offices.
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Quantum Immortality is a thought experiment according to which self conscious beings cannot experience death. According to the experiment, the self conscious being’s mind would just switch to another reality in which its death did not occur.
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In 1886, the Germans sent a mission to Chile to help train and modernise the Chilean army. As a result of the Germans overhaul of their army, the ceremonial uniforms, weapons and marching songs are all German or German based, and military parades look like a step into Germany 150 years ago.
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Called a real-life Lord of the Flies, the Tongan Castaways, six boys who stole a boat and were stranded on a deserted island in 1965, staying there for 15 months before rescue, built a “commune” with a garden, permanent fire, gym, and badminton court.
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Saddam Hussein once pranked his guests by adding tabasco to koftas he cooked for them- some of the panicked guests initially fearing that the paranoid dictator had poisoned them.
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