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World Naked Gardening Day is celebrated on the first Saturday in May. It aims to promote harmony and peace with nature.
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The coast of New Zealand has very strong winds, so the trees here have learned to grow sideways.
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For those who misunderstood: on Venus, a day, which is one full rotation on its axis, lasts 243 Earth days; this rotation is extremely slow. Meanwhile, a year, meaning one orbit around the Sun, lasts only 225 Earth days. This means a day on Venus is actually longer than its year, which is unique in the solar system
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Who was Scarface?
Scarface, born in 2007, became one of the most famous lions.
He reportedly killed 400 hyenas and 130 male lions.
In 2012, he suffered a serious eye injury in a fight but won.
He's believed to be the only lion who killed adult hippos one on one battle and drove crocodiles out of his territory
In 2021 he died alone as a king does.
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At Oxford University, a tiny bell in the Clarendon Laboratory has been ringing almost continuously since 1840, powered by two mysterious "dry pile" batteries whose exact composition is still unknown. Scientists don't want to dismantle it until it finally stops.
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The world's oldest living organism is a 4,800-year-old tree in California.
Methuselah: The Ancient Sentinel of the White Mountains Deep within the arid slopes of California's White Mountains stands Methuselah, a Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) that has survived for over 4,850 years.
To protect this ancient marvel from vandalism, the U.S. Forest Service keeps its exact location secret, ensuring it continues its silent vigil over the millenniums.
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Blood Falls in Antarctica, a glacier that looks like it's bleeding due to iron oxides in the water.
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🦋 The largest nocturnal butterfly in the world is the Attacus Atlas. With a wingspan of 30 cm, it is often mistaken for a bird.
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A squirrel monkey named Miss Baker was one of the first animals launched into space by the United States, and she was recovered alive. She lived to be 27 years old, making her the longest-lived squirrel monkey, and her tombstone often has a banana or two on top of it.
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🪴 Aloe can live without water for seven years.
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🐸 Until the 1960s, there was an interesting pregnancy test in European countries - the urine of a supposedly pregnant woman was sent to a British laboratory, where it was injected into a toad. If after this the toad lays eggs for several hours, it means the woman is pregnant.
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🐦⬛️ When the first batch of sparrows was brought from Europe to America in 1850, the Americans were so delighted that they overfed them all to death.
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Interestingly, sunflowers usually face the sun, but if they don't find it, they turn to each other. 🌻
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EXTREMELY RARE! the galo-da-serra ranks among the most difficult birds to encounter on Earth.
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There's a planet out there with no land. None.
Just water — deeper than anything on Earth — wrapping the entire world from pole to pole.
It's bigger than ours. It's real.
And it has a name: TOI-1452 b.
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On rare occasions, female lions may develop manes as a result of hormonal imbalances
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Your mother is always with you, even if she is no longer in this world: science confirms it.
Part of her continues living inside you at the cellular level, a real phenomenon known as microchimerism.
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A day on Venus lasts 243 Earth days
A year on Venus lasts 225 Earth days
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In 2004, Dolphins created a living shield for 40 minutes to protect a father and his daughter from a great white shark in New Zealand.
For about 40 minutes, the dolphins circled them and slapped the water with their tails until the shark lost interest and they made it safely back to shore.
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A cremation funeral held for a tiger named "Collarwali" who had given birth to 29 cubs throughout her life in 8 litters. She lived in the Pench Tiger Reserve in India and died at the age of 16.
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«The best thing I’ve learned this week is that when squirrels fall - they land like superheroes»
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🦛 Hippos sleep in the water
Hippos have a reflex mechanism that allows them to surface, take a breath, and then dive back underwater without waking up, so they don't drown while sleeping.
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🦉 Owls’ eyes are not spherical, but cylindrical. It is very difficult to rotate such eyes, so nature unexpectedly compensated for this defect by allowing owls to rotate their heads 270 degrees.
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🦋 In Brazil, there are butterflies that emit a strong smell, so they are specially kept at home to scent the air.
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Cockroaches are able to flatten their body so much that they can fit through a crack as thick as a sheet of paper.
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The “extremely shocked” emoji 😱 was loosely based on the painting The Scream by Edvard Munch.
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Whale milk is 50% fat and so thick it won’t dissolve in water, allowing calves to drink straight from the ocean.
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