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fact: In a 2025 study of English-language children’s books featuring anthropomorphised animals, only cats, ducks, and birds were more often depicted as female as to the rest of the animals, which were more frequently portrayed as male.

fact: Mars Inc. makes more money from petcare than it does from chocolate plus all of their other food brands.

fact: The first Polish-language encyclopedia, published in 1745, lists the definition for a horse as “Everyone knows what a horse is.“

fact: Playing B-flat on a tuba will arouse male alligators.

fact: A single cheerio is roughly 0.4 calories.

fact: The Campaign for North Africa is a board game published by Simulations Publications, Inc. in 1978. It takes ten players and an estimated 1,500 hours to complete a game, thus often dubbed the most detailed and longest wargame to finish, replicating the entire North African Campaign of WWII from 1940 to 1943.

fact: Catalonia was a region of Spain that was an independent country for a mere 8 seconds in 2017, holding the record for the shortest lifespan of a nation.

fact: Every receipt in Taiwan is a lottery ticket. With many prize categories, customers can most notably win up to 10 million NTD (300 thousand USD) if the exact eight-digit code listed on the receipt matches another code announced on live television every two months. Due to the possibility of a reward, a customer will be more inclined to request a receipt, minimizing tax evasion via unrecorded sales.

fact: Gherman Titov, a Russian cosmonaut, is the first person to vomit in space.

fact: Bagheera kiplingi, a species of spider, has an exceptionally herbivorous diet from other species of its kind.