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Mosquitoes sit low in the food chain but support many species. Fish, amphibians, bats and birds rely on them as a steady food source.

Source: Encyclopedia Britannica

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‘Shrapnel’ is named after British officer Henry Shrapnel, who invented an exploding shell in the early 1800s.

According to studies, the average native English speaker knows about 42,000 words by age 20, with top speakers reaching around 50,000, and daily use under 1,000.

Gravity behaves differently around the world — a baseball hit the same way in Miami flies about a foot farther than in Seattle, thanks to weaker centrifugal pull near the equator.

Studies suggest around 30% of people are natural 'night owls', biologically tuned to perform best later in the day and slow to start in the morning.

Alfred Nobel’s 1895 bequest of $2.5 million has grown nearly 200× to over $540m, funding $12m a year in Nobel Prizes and costs entirely from investment returns.

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