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And the man who beat out God for the most number of thanks received is Steven Spielberg.

Changes in how homes are designed (open floor plans, larger rooms and higher ceilings) have also changed the chemical composition of the fire and greatly increased the speed at which it grows.

Pablo Escobar outside the White House with his son, 1981

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On #ThisDayInHistory in 1932, Hattie Wyatt Caraway, a Democrat from Arkansas, became the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate. Later that year, Caraway was elected for a full six-year term with the support of powerful Louisiana senator, Huey Long. And in 1938, she was reelected. Although she was the first freely elected female senator, Caraway was preceded in the Senate by Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia, who was appointed in 1922 to fill a vacancy but never ran for election and only served a single day in office.

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Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life. TERRY PRATCHETT

In 1975, a cat was listed as the co-author of a prestigious physics paper because the author had accidentally written 'we' instead of 'I' throughout and couldn't be bothered changing it.

Meet the Common Bronzewing (Phaps chalcoptera)! This pigeon is widespread across Australia, where it lives in a variety of habitats including forests, deserts, and savannas. Structural coloration, rather than pigmentation, is the reason the plumage on its wings has an iridescent effect. What’s unique about its vibrant feathers is the range of color displayed on individual barbs; typically only one color is seen per barb. Photo: Donald Hobern, CC BY 2.0, flickr

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The world’s largest waterfall is underwater. It is between Iceland and Greenland and is almost two miles deep.

The surface of the Atlantic Ocean is not level; the water level is a few centimetres higher on the European side than on the Canadian side.

Saudi Arabia is three and a half times bigger than the UK but has no rivers.