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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:43 pm
The white rhino is not white. Its name comes from the Afrikaans wyd meaning wide, describing its mouth.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:45 pm
A white rhino can produce 50lb of dung per day.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 7:38 pm
Butterflies can fly only when the temperature is between 82F and 100F.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 7:38 pm
Their wings are made of very thin layers of chitin, which act as solar panels and soak up heat from the sun.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 7:39 pm
Some butterflies live for nine months but most live for only about two or three weeks.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 7:39 pm
Butterflies can drink but not chew solid food. They have a curled-up proboscis through which they suck up nectar.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 7:39 pm
In 2008, research showed that butterflies may remember things they learned as caterpillars.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 7:40 pm
More than 1.6 million tons of potatoes are made into chips every year in the UK.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 7:41 pm
More than 250 million fish & chip meals are sold in the UK each year. That’s about eight a second.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 7:41 pm
Shakespeare mentioned chips only in Sonnet 128: “Those dancing chips o’er whom thy fingers walk with gentle gait”, but those were wood chips.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 7:41 pm
French fries were invented in Belgium.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 7:42 pm
Around seven per cent of the potatoes grown in the USA end up in chip bags sold by McDonald’s.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 7:42 pm
The average Briton eats just more than 7lb of chips a year; the average American eats 16lb.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 7:42 pm
According to a survey in 1999, pinching a partner’s chips is the top cause of romantic arguments in restaurants.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 7:42 pm
The original 1939 version of Goodbye, Mr Chips is the only film with ‘chips’ in its title to win an Oscar (for Robert Donat as best actor).

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 7:43 pm
In 2011, the number of marriages that took place in England and Wales was 247,890. That’s about one marriage every two minutes for comparison, there was a divorce only every 4.5 minutes.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 7:44 pm
In ancient Rome, senators were forbidden to marry the daughter of an actor or actress.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 7:44 pm
In England in 1576, 10-year-olds were allowed to marry.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 7:44 pm
Wedding rings are worn on the third finger of the left hand because the Romans believed that a nerve led directly from there to the heart.

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The proportion of babies born outside marriage in the UK in 2012 rose to 47.5 per cent.
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