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Vast Park Teeming With Life
1. Northeast Greenland National Park is larger than Pakistan, Venezuela, or France, and only 30 countries are larger than it. There are abundant polar bears, hares, foxes, caribou, and walruses, as well as almost half the world’s population of musk oxen, about 15,000 head.
2. Mayflies, fishflies, and shadflies have been chosen as bio-indicators of water quality in ecological assessments because their larvae cannot survive in polluted aquatic habitats.
3. In 2011, a Muslim man disrupted a music concert by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and asked her to convert to Islam. Some of the musicians left the stage.
4. Long before Pythagoras, Babylonian mathematicians had already discovered the theorem attributed to him. The clay tablet IM 67118, dated to around 1770 BCE, shows scribes applying the Pythagorean relationship to calculate the diagonal of a rectangle.
5. Boye, the poodle of Prince Rupert of the Rhine, was believed to possess magical powers and be the Devil in disguise, and often accompanied his master into battle during the English Civil War. After the war, the poodle was shot with a silver bullet.
Alive After His Obituary
6. Benjamin Runkle, an officer in the American Civil War, was wrongly assumed dead on the battlefield. An obituary was published for him while he was still living, but Runkle outlived the man who wrote it and then wrote an obituary for that obituary writer in return.
7. Georgia's state flower, the Cherokee Rose, is an invasive species that originated in China.
8. Because of extensive human intervention, domestic sheep have evolved to depend on humans for shearing, as their wool no longer sheds naturally.
9. Life most likely emerged on Earth almost immediately after the planet became habitable: the first oceans formed 4.4 billion years ago, while current evidence places the earliest life at about 4.28 billion years ago, with "instantaneous" meant on a geological timescale.
10. The Surinam toad carries its eggs in an unusual manner: the female embeds them into pockets on her back, where they develop into fully formed toadlets that eventually break out of her skin.
