Longest officially recognized place name is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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The Basenji dog is the only dog that is not able to bark.
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Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day.
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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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In Korea, there's a man named Lee Jin-gyu who fell in love and married his life-sized Japanese body pillow (called a "dakimakura").
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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