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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 Pascaline is a mechanical calculator invented in 1642 by Blaise Pascal to help his father, a tax collector, perform addition and subtraction calculations.

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Lake Abraham is a Canadian man-made lake that was created in 1972. When decaying plants on the lakebed release methane, the trapped gas causes frozen bubbles to form under the ice on the surface of the lake.

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Naypyidaw has been the capital of Myanmar since November 2005. The name Naypyidaw replaces the name Pyinmana, which was the name of the city before it was designated as the country's capital.

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Ratatouille, created by Brad Bird, produced by Pixar and Walt Disney Pictures and released in 2007, tells the story of a rat who dreams of becoming a chef.

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Buck Owens was one of the pioneers of the Bakersfield sound: an allusion to Bakersfield, California the city where he lived and from which he was inspired for what he preferred to call "American music".

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Disneyland opened on July 17, 1955 in Anaheim, California, becoming the first theme park of its kind in the world.

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The narrator of Bret Easton Ellis' novel American Psycho is Patrick Bateman, a young New York investment banker and serial killer.

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Eugène Viollet-le-Duc went into exile in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1871, after the Paris Commune, where he continued his work as an architect.

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Sperm whales are odontocetes. Unlike mysticetes, they have teeth and are the largest members of this cetacean suborder.

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