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University researchers trained sheep to recognise famous people, including Barack Obama and Fiona Bruce.

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0Q7R TIL that a bullet fired from a rifled barrel spins at 300,000RPM (5000 rotations per second)
DQPxD TIL certain frogs, such as the Cape rain frog, don't have a tadpole stage and instead hatch from eggs directly into froglets.
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