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A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.

Earth has been recycling water for over 4 billion years! That means we drink the same water as woolly mammoths, the first humans and King Tut.

Some people taste-test pet food for a living.

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NASA’s Curiosity Rover spots a ‘mouse’ on Mars!

Are there really rodents on the red planet?
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Cuba facts!

Learn all about this colourful country!
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Meet some incredible conservation heroes!

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Meet the penguins of the Falkland Islands!

Join us on an adventure to the Falkland Islands to meet five fab species of penguin!

A head of broccoli is made up of hundreds of small flower buds.

Elephant calves suck on their trunks just as human babies suck on their thumbs.

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