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The coldest place in the Universe is the Boomerang Nebula in the Centaurus constellation. It's temperature in Fahrenheit is a mind-boggling -458 degrees which is only one degree above absolute zero.

The biggest stadium in the world is a cricket stadium in India that holds 132,000 people.

An octopus has three hearts — two pump blood to the gills, and one pumps it to the rest of the body. Even weirder, the main heart stops beating when the octopus swims, which is why they prefer to crawl rather than swim — it’s less tiring!

The octopus is indeed a strange animal.

Most people know that Texas was an independent nation for a time before becoming part of the US. Fewer people know that Vermont was an independent nation from 1777 until 1791, when it joined the US as the 14th state and the first to join the union after the original 13 states. Details:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont