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	v[0]="The earliest known jigsaw puzzle was made in England in the 1760's by mapmaker John Spilsbury? He designed his 'dissected maps' as a tool to teach geography to children."
	v[1]="The largest Amazon fish - piraibas - can grow to more than ten feet long and weigh over 400 pounds! (Betcha won't see one of them in a McDonald's Fish Fillet!)"
	v[2]="What's a Chunnel? It's the nickname for the English Channel tunnel. It runs for 31 miles, 150 feet below the English Channel, connecting England to France by train."
	v[3]="Moscow citizens eat about 170 tons of ice cream a day, even in the bitter cold winter."
	v[4]="The giant panda only lives in the forests of western Sichuan province (in China) and eats a specific type of bamboo shoot that grows there. Because these forests are being cut down, only about 700 giant pandas are left in the wild."
	v[5]="Sumo wrestling is the top spectator sport in Japan. Wrestlers typically weigh over 330 pounds."
	v[6]="Name the fish with a name longer than the fish: Humuhumunukunukuapua! Say it, it's..... uh, difficult!"
	v[7]="The Bahamas consist of 3,000+ coral islands, of which only about 20 are inhabited."
	v[8]="Ushuaia, Argentina, on the island of Tierra del Fuego, is the southernmost city in the world. It is less than 700 miles from Antarctica."
	v[9]="The Sahara Desert is almost the same size as the entire United States."
	v[10]="Antarctica has only two flowering species of plants."
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