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Although it’s only Switzerland’s fourth biggest city with fewer than 150 000 inhabitants, Lausanne is the only Swiss city with a metro system.

Its two lines, M1 and M2, make for a combined network of 13.7 km with 28 stations.

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Marie Skłodowska Curie was the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different fields.

She received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with her husband Pierre for researching radioactivity, and the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering radium and polonium.

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On 3 January 2018, as high water coincided with a storm, all five major storm surge gates in the Netherlands were closed simultaneously in a historic first.

With over a quarter of land below sea level, the country has invested heavily in flexible flood defences.

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The Vatican Railway connecting Vatican City to the Italian railway network is the world’s shortest national rail system.

Only 300 metres of the 1.27 km railway lies inside Vatican City, with a journey time of 30 seconds from the border gates to its only station.

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The existence of the UK’s foreign intelligence service ‘MI6’ was a secret for almost a century.

Now MI6 has a website, a Wikipedia page, its HQ featured in James Bond films, and the organisation runs recruitment advertising campaigns.

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The Faroe Islands are home to the world’s first undersea roundabout.

It’s part of Eysturoyartunnilin, a 11 km tunnel network between two of the islands.

The roundabout, nicknamed “the jellyfish”, features an illuminated artwork by Tróndur Patursson.

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TheMalabar pied hornbill(Anthracoceros coronatus) is a species of bird in thehornbillfamily, Bucerotidae. It is found in Sri Lanka and parts of India, where it inhabits...

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Millvina Dean, the youngest survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, died exactly 98 years after the ocean liner’s launch.

RMS Titanic was launched in Belfast on 31 May 1911.

It sank in 1912 with nine-week-old Millvina as a survivor.

She died in Southampton on 31 May 2009.

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The peace symbol was first used in 1958 at a protest in London.

Designed by Gerald Holtom, it first appeared on signs at a protest held by the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and shows the letters N and D in flag semaphore.

It has since become an international peace symbol.

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TheLambert conformal conic projectionis aconic map projectionintroduced by the Swiss mathematicianJohann Heinrich Lambertin 1772. It is widely used foraeronautical...

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Between the 12th and the 13th century, the city of Bologna was home to around 90 towers up to 100 metres tall.

Why many rich families had these towers built remains a cause for speculation.

Most were torn down in the 13th century and only 20 of them are left today.

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Thespringbok(Antidorcas marsupialis) is a medium-sizedantelopefound mainly in the dry areas of southern and southwestern Africa. A slender, long-leggedbovid, it reaches 71...

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Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is a village in Wales.

The name was created in the 19th century to attract tourists and it now has the second longest one-word place name in the world.

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🙌🏼🌸✨Today's #LawofAttraction #factoftheday reminds us our thoughts are powerful 💜 If we focus on positivity we align with the energy of abundance & the universe responds to our vibrations, so choose your thoughts wisely!🙏🏼✨

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Saint Sarkis Cathedralis anArmenian Apostoliccathedral inTehran, Iran, named afterSaint Sarkis the Warrior. Built between 1964 and 1970, it is the cathedral of the Armenian...

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While tumbleweed is iconic in Westerns set in the Americas, the plant is originally from eastern Europe.

The tumbleweed (or ‘Russian Thistle’) didn’t arrive in North America from Europe until the 1870’s, most likely with shipments of seeds.

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