Man’s proverbial first best friend was probably a grey wolf that may have made contact with the first human companions about 33,000 years ago, somewhere in south-east Asia.
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Scientists have discovered 29 kilos of plastic in the stomach of a sperm whale, which washed up on the southern coast of Spain in February.
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During the course of its life, an average 100 year old tree will have made available 6,600 kilograms of oxygen for living creatures.
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Other common names include 'boab', 'boaboa', 'bottle tree', 'the tree of life', 'upside-down tree', and 'monkey bread tree'.
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The Japanese giant hornet ( Vespa mandarinia japonica ) is a subspecies of the world's largest hornet, the Asian giant hornet ( V. mandarinia ).
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At the Colosseum in ancient Rome, up to 5,000 pairs of gladiators fought and 5,000 animals could be killed during a single event.
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People in the 1800s didn't know what to think about a new invention called the automobile. No one was sure it would catch on .
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Japan has the world’s third largest economy behind the US and China. There are 127 million people living in the country.
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