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This king comes face to face with his past and his pride in the wilds of Africa.
What is The Lion King?
The Lion King is the most successful animated movie of all time. Frozen 2 is the second-most successful, and that one came out 25 years after The Lion King!
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This cheerful color is used for things that need to be highly visible - taxis, highlighter pens, school buses, etc.
What is the color yellow?
Yellow is one of the world's oldest colors! It has been found in cave paintings that are over 17,000 years old, in art from Ancient Rome and Egypt, through the Renaissance and Medieval ages, all the way up to today.
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These big mammals (the largest in N. America!) used to freely roam the plains - there are successful efforts underway to help revive the herds though!
What is a bison?
Although more often referred to as "buffalo", in N. America they are actually bison. Some historians think that the word buffalo came around because it sounded so similar to the french word for beef, "boeuf".
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This northern country is known for it's love of hockey and maple syrup - did you know they also have more lakes than any other country in the world?
What is Canada?
Canada has a whopping 1.42 million lakes - more than every other country in the world combined!
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One of the most abundant substances on Earth!
What is water?
Water actually freezes faster when it is warm than when it is cold! It is called the Mpemba effect, named after a student who discovered the phenomenon by accident in 1963.
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Squirrel! This elderly gentleman floats away to paradise and reluctanly makes friends with a young stowaway and a talking dog along the way.
What is Up?
Did you know that the ice cream shop that Russell and Carl visit is a real place? You can visit Fentons Creamery in Oakland any day of the week.
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This fiery primary color is known to grab peoples' attention very quickly - that's why you see it on many signs, especially to warn people of possible danger if they aren't careful and alert!
What is the color red?
In Western culture, red can also symbolize love (think Valentine's Day). In many Eastern cultures, red is believed to bring love, joy, and good luck!
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You might have heard that these desert animals store water in the humps on their backs, but that isn't actually the case.
What is a camel?
Those humps actually store fat that the animal can use to survive anywhere from a number of weeks to a number of months in harsh desert conditions.
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This grand natural wonder is 5 - 6 million years old, 277 miles long, 18 miles across in it's widest sections, and over a mile deep - it's also one of the 7 Natural Wonders of the World!
What is the Grand Canyon?
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Chimpanzees, monkeys, dogs, mice, and guinea pigs have all flown to this very unlikely place!
What is outer space?
The first food ever eaten in space was applesauce!
300
These two monstrous friends find out that a laugh is more powerful than a scream after a child gets through to their side of the door.
What is Monsters, Inc.?
The movie required technology that wasn't made yet to create Sulley's fur - so they created a new program that could handle the task!
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The darkest of the colors, this one is usually said to be a "non-color" - but it's actually the result of all the other colors being absorbed into one.
What is the color black?
300
This color-changing reptile is so cute and widely popular that one of them is Disney princess's best friend.
What is a chameleon?
Chameleons can change their color thanks to the presence of crystals in their skin. Until recently scientists thought the animals merely changed the pigment of their skin. Chameleons' colors actually change depending on how close or far the crystals that lie just beneath the creatures' top layer of skin are to each other, acting just like a prism.
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A vast jungle frequently referred to as "the lungs of the Earth" - it is responsible for producing more than 20% of the Earth's oxygen!
What is the Amazon?
The Amazon also holds a huge amount of plant and animal species! Scientists believe currently 10% of known species on Earth are found in the Amazon - and a new species of plant or animal is discovered every other day on average!
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This vastly important organ in the human body weighs about 3 pounds, is made up of 75% water, loves sugar, passes information through at up to 250 mph, and isn't fully developed until about the age of 25 years.
What is the brain?
Did you know, the brain cannot feel pain? Humans have developed pain receptors as a survival technique, so the brain senses pain. But it cannot actually feel pain because there are no pain receptors for it. Brain freezes or headaches you may have experienced are actually from nerves, blood vessels, muscles, etc. feeling pain and telling the brain that something isn't behaving in its regular fashion.
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Friendship and courage help reunite this father and son in Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
What is Finding Nemo?
400
This lush color represents life for many cultures, and is the second-most popular color in the world after the color blue!
What is the color green?
Nightvision goggles use green because the human eye is the most sensitive to this color and is able to distinguish more shades of it than any other!
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This guy is usually thought to be the slowest animal in the world, and spends most of its time up in a tree.
What is a sloth?
Sloths are actually fantastic swimmers! They can swim large distances in short amounts of time.
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Part of the Incan empire, this ancient site sits over 7,000 feet above sea level in the misty mountains of Peru.
What is Machu Picchu?
Machu Picchu sit so high up that it's surrounded by a "cloud forest" - which is basically a rainforest that is so high up that it sits in the clouds and gathers moisture there instead of through the rainfall far, far below.
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Earth's only natural satellite, we only ever see one "face" - it is also responsible for the tides!
What is the moon?
Not only does the moon contribute to the rise and fall of the oceans, it is also responsible for something known as "rock tides". While not quite as noticeable as the ocean tides the rocks on Earth do respond similarly to water, and also take part in the push and pull of gravity from the moon - shifting up to several centimeters during "high tide"!
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This prehistoric story follows the adventures of an unlikely trio when the Earth was a much colder place.
What is Ice Age?
500
This primary color is rarely seen in natural foods - some berries and fish being the only exceptions.
What is the color blue?
In the opposite direction of red, blue is often thought to be a calming color. Several studies have shown that our bodies and minds relax when exposed to it.
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These marine mammals are quite curious and very friendly, often swimming up next to boats as they glide through the water.
What is a dolphin?
Dolphins love to blow bubbles! Also, scientists have recently discovered that dolphins give themselves names, and recognize each other by them.
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While it is the largest hot desert in the world, it isn't the hottest (that title goes to Death Valley here in California).
What is the Sahara Desert in Africa?
There are actually 2 other deserts on Earth that are bigger than the Sahara - both the Arctic and Antarctic have vast "polar deserts".
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These concoctions of vapors, gases, and liquids can weigh over 1 million pounds each, despite their apparent weightlessness and fluffiness.
What are clouds?
Humans are really good at smelling approaching rain - despite not having very good olfactory powers (the ability to really smell things) compared to nearly every other animal, we can smell rain coming better than sharks can smell blood in the ocean!