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Fact The fax machine predates the telephone Patented in 1843, more than thirty years before the telephone. 1 min read Fact Antarctica is a desert The driest continent on Earth is buried under most of its fresh water. 1 min read Fact Cats cannot taste sweetness The gene for it is broken in every cat, from housecat to tiger. 1 min read Fact France used the guillotine in the same year Star Wars was released September 1977. The last legal execution by blade in the Western world. 1 min read Fact Earth’s atmosphere was poisoned by its own life Oxygen was a pollutant, and it caused one of the largest extinctions in history. 1 min read Fact Pigeons can tell a Monet from a Picasso And then correctly sort paintings they had never seen before. 1 min read Fact Nintendo is older than the fall of the Ottoman Empire Founded in 1889, making playing cards. 1 min read Fact Mount Everest is not the tallest mountain, by two different measures It wins on altitude and loses on height, and loses again on distance from the centre of the Earth. 1 min read Fact Horseshoe crab blood is used to test nearly every vaccine It is bright blue, and it clots on contact with bacterial contamination. 1 min read Fact Harvard was founded before calculus was invented 1636. Newton and Leibniz came decades later. 1 min read