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  • [Jellyfish]: Jellyfish have been around for more than 500 million years, making them one of the oldest living creatures on Earth.
  • [Space]: Space is completely silent because sound waves need a medium to travel through, and space is a vacuum.
  • [Elephants]: Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
  • [The Moon]: The Moon is moving away from Earth at a rate of about 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) per year.
  • [Insects]: There are more species of beetles on Earth than any other type of animal.
  • [Language]: The word "bookkeeper" (and its variants) is the only unhyphenated English word with three consecutive double letters.
  • [Cats]: Cats have five toes on their front paws, but only four toes on their back paws.
  • [Sleep]: Humans spend about one-third of their lives sleeping.
  • [The Sun]: The Sun is so large that about 1.3 million Earths could fit inside it.
  • [The Ocean]: The Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean is the deepest known point on Earth, reaching a depth of about 36,070 feet (10,994 meters).
  • [Lungs]: The surface area of the lungs is roughly the same size as a tennis court.
  • [The Human Body]: The human nose can remember 50,000 different scents.
  • [Mountains]: Mount Everest is not the tallest mountain on Earth when measured from base to summit; that title belongs to Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
  • [Bees]: Bees can recognize human faces.
  • [Technology]: The first-ever email was sent by Ray Tomlinson to himself in 1971. It said, "QWERTYUIOP."

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