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Across a full human pregnancy, the extra energy cost to create a baby is estimated at around 50,000 calories - roughly 300 extra calories a day.

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The mosaic inside Cinderella’s Castle at Disney World was designed by Hanns Scharff - a former Nazi interrogator during WWII.

Dogs and cats can get sunburned too, and repeat exposure raises their risk of skin cancer.

We all have thousands of tiny arachnids living on our faces - called face mites - and yes, they’re probably on your eyelashes right now.

Norway is the second-highest consumer of tacos per capita each year—just behind Mexico. In Norway, Friday night is taco night.

The original jungle gym was designed to help kids visualise the 4th dimension - its inventor’s father was a British mathematician with a keen interest in tesseracts.

Spiders can fly using electric fields—a process called ballooning - by releasing silk that catches atmospheric electricity. This lets them glide for miles, even over oceans.

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