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  • Brazil borders every country in South America except Chile and Ecuador.

  • Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport in the early 1900s.

  • A jellyfish is 95% water.

  • In the 17th century Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler made important discoveries relating to planetary motion and orbits.

  • The alchemy symbol for water is an inverted triangle, resembling a cup or glass.

  • All of the cobble stones used to line the streets in New York were originally stones found in the hulls of Belgian ships ballast.

  • The hottest chile in the world is the habanero.

  • Greek mathematician Euclid is often referred to as the 'Father of Geometry' for his revolutionary ideas and influential textbook called 'Elements' that he wrote around the year 300 BC.

  • Mosquitoes prefer to bite people with Type O blood.

  • Acrophobia is the fear of heights.

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