🎓 Academic Closed

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The last person to have the honor of walking on the moon was American astronaut Eugene Andrew Cernan, the eleventh and last person to walk on the moon (during the Apollo 17 mission). But it was Charles Duke, the tenth person to walk on the Moon, who was born the latest of anyone who's ever walked on it—October 3, 1935.

 

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Trivia Question: Water has a pH level of around?
Answer: 7

 

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Malaria Is Responsible for the Deaths of Half the Humans Who Have Ever Lived

 

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Trivia Question: What’s the most expensive home in the world?
Answer: Buckingham Palace

 

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There are a an estimated 7,097 languages spoken throughout the world today (839 spoken in Papua New Guinea alone), but because many of these are spoken by a small number of people they are considered at risk of extinction.

 

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Trivia Question: What did the Crocodile swallow in Peter Pan?
Answer: An alarm clock

 

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Crickets Can Help You Tell the Temperature

 

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Trivia Question: What’s the hardest rock?
Answer: A diamond

 

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Though specifics vary, scientists have found that crickets chirp at different intervals depending on the temperature outside. They do so consistently enough that you can determine how warm or cold it is by counting the number of chirps over a particular interval and adding a set number to it (one popular formula from an old Farmer's Almanac is to count the number of chirps over a 14-second interval and add 40 to it).

 

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Trivia Question: What is the national dish of Spain?
Answer: Paella

 

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Possums Don't Play Dead, They Pass Out

 

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Trivia Question: Which horoscope sign has a crab?
Answer: Cancer

 

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The creatures aren't quite the skilled actors they are often portrayed as. Instead, they are just strategic wimps, falling into an involuntarily comatose state when they feel intense fear, which can last for hours, convincing any would-be predators that they are dead (they even emit a corpse-like smell to really sell the act).

 

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Trivia Question: What color is Absinthe?
Answer: Green

 

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Daddy Longlegs Aren't Spiders

They don't produce silk, have just one pair of eyes, and don't have the narrow "waist" that spiders do. In fact, they're more closely related to the scorpion than other spiders. (That doesn't really make them less creepy, though.)

 

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Trivia Question: The Statue of Liberty was given to the US by which country?
Answer: France

 

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In 1925, Texas Held a Special Session of an All-Female Supreme Court

 

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Trivia Question: Which US city is known as the City of Brotherly Love?
Answer: Philadelphia

 

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The Mayans Had a Goddess of Suicide by Hanging

 

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Trivia Question: What substance are nails made out of?
Answer: Keratin