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The immortal jellyfish, Turritopsis dohrnii, can revert from adulthood back to its polyp stage when threatened by danger or starvation.

Abo Elementary School in Artesia, New Mexico was the first public school in the United States constructed entirely underground.

The mantis shrimp can punch with the acceleration of a .22 caliber bullet, creating cavitation bubbles that reach 4,700°C—nearly as hot as the sun's surface.

Venus rotates so slowly that a day on Venus (243 Earth days) is longer than a year on Venus (225 Earth days).

Tardigrades can survive in outer space, withstand pressures six times greater than the deepest ocean trenches, and live without food or water for more than 30 years.

Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing (1969) than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza by roughly 500 years.

The Great Emu War of 1932 saw the Australian military deploy soldiers with machine guns against 20,000 emus—and the emus won, with the operation abandoned as ineffective.

The last widow of a Civil War veteran died in 2020: Helen Viola Jackson married 93-year-old James Bolin in 1936 when she was 17.

The guillotine was still in official use in France when Star Wars was released in 1977; the last execution by guillotine occurred in 1977, abolished in 1981.