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The Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt desert, is located in the south-western Bolivian department of Potosí, at an altitude of 3,656 metres.

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Alfred Dreyfus was a captain in the French army. Wrongly accused of espionage in 1894, he was at the heart of the Dreyfus Affair, a major legal scandal.

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The first fully implantable pacemaker was fitted on October 8, 1958 by Swedish surgeon Åke Senning to Arne Larsson in Sweden.

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Ouagadougou is the capital of Burkina Faso, located in the center of the country. It is the political, cultural and economic center of the country.

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In 1795, French confectioner Nicolas Appert invented the method of preserving food by sterilization in hermetically sealed containers, known as appertization.

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The Red Sea owes its name to natural phenomena, notably the presence of cyanobacteria such as Trichodesmium erythraeum, which give the water a reddish hue when they bloom.

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The Rougon-Macquart cycle is a series of 20 novels written by Émile Zola, one of the greatest French naturalist writers of the 19th century.

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The cacao tree, which produces cacao beans, is native to the tropical forests of South America, specifically the Amazon basin.

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Sean Bean plays Ned Stark in Game of Thrones, a central character in the first season known for his sense of honor.

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a short novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published in January 1886. It tells the story of a notary public, Gabriel John Utterson, who investigates the strange connection between Edward Hyde and Dr. Henry Jekyll.

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