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		<title>Atacama Desert Facts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all know that deserts are one of the driest places in the world but did you know that the Atacama desert in Chile is the driest. To understand what that really means let&#8217;s take as an example the Sahara desert (the worlds largest hot desert) and note that it receives a meager 2mm of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birds That Can Talk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that parrots can be trained to say up to 200 words and short phrases. In fact their ability to mimic human language is so well known that many parrot owners initially purchase the bird for this reason alone. The truth however is that like most talking birds they&#8217;re not really talking but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smallest Bird In The World ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At just 5cm long and 2g in weight the smallest bird in the world is none other than the Bee Hummingbird. Found mainly in Cuba and also holding the record for the smallest egg in the world these guys are tiny. Like all hummingbirds they can fly not only forwards but also backwards, up, down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Were Vaccinations Invented ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most historians document the first vaccination to be around 1796 when English doctor Edward Jenner observed that people working in close proximity to cows were completely immune to the smallpox virus. For those that don&#8217;t know much about the virus or its severity then imagine chicken pox or the measles but much worse. The picture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deepest Lake In The World ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lake Baikal (Baikal) in Siberia, Russia is the deepest lake in the world measuring 1620m deep at its deepest point. This makes it not only deep but also the oldest lake in the world estimated to be around 25 million years old. At over 636 kilometers long and 80 kilometers wide this fresh water lake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Did The Word Robot Come From ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a question we get asked a lot so we thought we'd put people out of their misery. Firstly the word robot comes from the Czech word '<em>robotnik</em>' which means forced labour or even slave. Watching movies and reading various sci-fi novels of the past you'll quickly see that robots have mostly always been portrayed as servents of humanity. ]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s The Fastest Possible Speed ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well imagine going 500,000 times faster than a concorde and you have a speed nearing 299,792,458 meters per second. This is the speed of light as it travels through a vaccum which it's so fast that if you were able to move at this speed you could go around the earth 7 times in just 1 second, now that's fast!]]></description>
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		<title>The Difference Between Insects And Spiders ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite the visual similarities between the two both are actually members of distinct families. Spiders are members of the Arachnid family whilst insects belong to the Insect family. So what makes the two families different ?]]></description>
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