If you’ve played Connect Four, you might be surprised to know that a board has 4,531,985,219,092 possible positions.
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Sandy Island, a land mass no larger than Manhattan in the Pacific Ocean, was discovered by James Cook in 1876. When a team of Australian scientists went to survey the island in 2012, they found that there was no island at all! They believe that Cook might have spotted a mass of floating volcanic stone and gas.
The most important warship developed between the two world wars was the aircraft carrier. In World War II the aircraft carrier made naval battles possible between fleets which were hundreds of miles apart in which the opposing forces never even saw one another!
Ever heard of the fennec fox? It is the smallest type of fox in the world and weighs under three pounds! Its home is in the Sahara Desert where it is active during the cool nights. Fennec foxes have huge ears that allow them to hear prey and keep their heat regulated.
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Sandy Island, a land mass no larger than Manhattan in the Pacific Ocean, was discovered by James Cook in 1876. When a team of Australian scientists went to survey the island in 2012, they found that there was no island at all! They believe that Cook might have spotted a mass of floating volcanic stone and gas.
The most important warship developed between the two world wars was the aircraft carrier. In World War II the aircraft carrier made naval battles possible between fleets which were hundreds of miles apart in which the opposing forces never even saw one another!
Ever heard of the fennec fox? It is the smallest type of fox in the world and weighs under three pounds! Its home is in the Sahara Desert where it is active during the cool nights. Fennec foxes have huge ears that allow them to hear prey and keep their heat regulated.
A dog’s sense of smell is simply amazing: Our canine friends can smell a teaspoon of sugar dissolved in two Olympic swimming pools. That’s thanks to the 300 million olfactory receptors in their noses – humans have a measly six million...
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