An avocado never ripens on the tree, so farmers can use trees as a way to store and keep avocados fresh for up to seven months.

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The word “multiply” is from the Latin multus, meaning “multi” + plex, meaning “fold”—which, in turn, is from the Proto-Indo-European plek, which means “to plait.”

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The term "quicksilver" actually refers to mercury. The Greek name for mercury was "hydrargyrum," or literally "liquid silver," which gives the element its symbol, Hg.

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New Zealand is listed as a state of Australia in the Australian constitution, and can join the Australian confederation if they choose to.

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The traditional way to pronounce Julius Caesar, is (yewl-yoos kay-i-sarr), showing that the imperial titles of Russian ‘Czar/Tsar’ or ‘Kaiser’, in German, had their origins in Classical Latin more than 2000 years before as a legacy to Caesar’s family name.

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A unusual kind of cactus, the creeping devil can both clone itself to survive and separate from its main stalk to gradually migrate across the desert.

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Penguins can drink salt water because they have a supraorbital gland, located near their eyes, which lets them filter the salt from the water.

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Stress makes people perform badly because it takes up space in the ‘working memory’ making less memory available for performing the task at hand.

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The first actual computer “bug” was a dead moth which was stuck in a Harvard Mark II computer in 1947.

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This is the Cashew of Pirangi", a single tree and the biggest cashew tree in the world located in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. It is estimated to be more than 1000 years old and covers an area of around 2 acres.

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Some female fish, like certain cichlids and brown trout can fake orgasms to trick males and swim off to find a better partner.

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The Great Fire of London (1666) destroyed most of the city, yet it killed fewer than 10 people. Poor sanitation and disease caused far more deaths afterward.

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