A study has shown that a male zebra finch is less likely to court a female zebra finch if he did not form any social friendships with female zebra finches when younger.

The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

An iceberg the size of Long Island, New York, broke off Antarctica and has blocked sea lanes used by both ships and penguins.

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