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Hottest place on Earth

What is the hottest place on Earth? El Azizia in Libya recorded a temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 Celsius) on Sept. 13, 1922 the hottest ever measured. In Death Valley, it got up to 134 Fahrenheit on July 10, 1913.

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what is the world's oldest animal

The oldest animal on Earth was born in 1830 Her name is Harriet, she's a Galapagos land tortoise

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Where do hamsters come from?

All pet hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930.

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The biggest brands in the world

The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

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Fact about a sleepy sleepy snail

A desert snail can sleep for 3 years.

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Bathroom Facts

An average person visits the toilet 2,500 times per year. (6-8 times per day) People spend at least 3 years of their lives on the toilet. Seven million cell phones are dropped in the toilet per year. Americans use a lot more toilet paper than any other country. (7 sheets on average) People have flushed down the toilet: goldfish, false teeth, socks, underwear, bras, shirts, shoes, mice, hamsters, toy cars, action figures, Barbies, toothbrushes, and whole rolls of toliet paper. Most toilets flush on an E-flat note. 10,000 times you have to change a baby's diaper until it learns how to go to the bathroom itself. Men spend 140 days of his life shaving. Brushing your teeth with the water on wastes 5 gallons of water. Shaving with the water on wastes 15 to 20 gallons. Females takes 3 times longer than males in the bathroom.

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Fun fact about Neil Armstrong's moonwalk

In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first of six home runs.

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Crazy fact about sleeping snails

A desert snail can sleep for 3 years.

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How bad is that burn?

There are 3 classifications of burns. a) First degree burn only involves the outer layer of skin. b) Second degree burn involves several layers of the skin tha become blistered. c) Third degree burn is all layers of the skin,underlying tissue and organs. Nerves are damaged and sometimes destoyed.

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What is a radio wave?

Radio waves are the radiation and detection of a range of frequency of electromagnetic waves. Frequency is the number of wavelengths that pass a particular point in one second and for radio waves the frequency is from 3 kHz to 300 GHz. Radio waves like all electromagnetic waves are able to carry information through space. Radio waves can travel unimpeded through objects like buildings or people but light waves can not. This is because radio waves have a very long wavelength allowing them to pass through objects that have shorter wavelengths like you and me without problem.

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