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The first electric battery, invented by Alessandro Volta in 1800, is known as the voltaic battery.

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The cover of Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon was created by Storm Thorgerson, a member of the Hipgnosis design studio.

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Albatrosses live mainly in the oceanic regions of the southern hemisphere, notably around Antarctica, South America, South Africa and Australia.

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Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray was first published in 1890, in the Victorian era, in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.

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The author of The Jungle Book is Rudyard Kipling. Published in 1894, this collection of short stories recounts the adventures of Mowgli, a child raised by wolves.

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Sailing stones are a geological phenomenon where rocks move and inscribe long traces in the bottom of a smooth valley without human or animal intervention. Such slippery rock tracks have been observed at Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park, California.

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The human skull is an essential part of our body, comprising the cranium and the facial mass, and plays a protective role for our brain.

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Auguste Rodin's sculpture The Kiss was originally created for the 1889 Paris World's Fair, where it was exhibited in the artist's pavilion.

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The Dream is a painting by Douanier Rousseau painted in 1910. It is currently kept at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The painter depicts a young nude girl, Yadwiga, Rousseau's former Polish friend, lying on a red sofa, surrounded by giant lotus flowers.

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The Winter War broke out during the Second World War on 30 November 1939 with the Soviet invasion of Finland.

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