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The white rhinoceros is classified as "near threatened." As of 2016, there are about 20,000 such rhinos in the world.

Charles Schulz, creator of the iconic comic strip Peanuts, saw the stripe's protagonist, Charlie Brown, as a laughable loser. According to the Peanuts Wiki website, Schulz once said that "Charlie Brown must be the one who suffers, because he's a caricature of the average person. Most of us are much more acquainted with losing than winning. Winning is great, but it isn't funny."

The marbled murrelet is a seabird native to the coasts of the Pacific Ocean and is often spotted around Oregon, Washington, Northern California, British Columbia and Alaska (as well as somewhat in Russia and northern Japan). They thrive in old-growth forests, and if you're a human, it's rare to find one of their nests, as they tend to build them hundreds of feet off the ground.

The Kiss Cam is a time-honored tradition of American sporting events. During time outs and other stoppages of play, the stadium events team – having already scoured the crowd for a target – focuses the cameras on a couple and puts their picture on the scoreboard.

You may know Arnold Schwarzenegger by such films as Terminator, Twins, Total Recall, Kindergarten Cop, Terminator 2, Conan the Barbarian, Predator, True Lies, Conan the Destroyer, and Terminator 3. You probably also know him as the 38th governor of California, serving in that office from November 2003 until January 2011.

For the almost the entire first half of the 20th century, African Americans were barred from playing for Major League Baseball teams. But on April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the color barrier.

For some people, high school is life's best years. For others, those four years are, well, happily forever in the past. But at any rate, once high school is over, you can't go back—at least, not as a student.

On the southern shore of eastern Cuba is Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a small outcrop of land and sea controlled by the United States. The almost-rectangular 45-square-mile zone has been home to US troops since the summer of 1898, when Marines landed there during the Spanish-American War.

In the 1996 film The Birdcage, Agador (played by actor Hank Azaria) regularly provided his friend and employer, Albert (played by Nathan Lane) with "Pirin" tablets. Pirin could treat a variety of maladies – anxiety, headaches, panic attacks, hyperactivity and more.

In the 1971 book The Lorax, the incomparable Dr. Seuss tells the story of an environmentally conscious monster (the Lorax) and his efforts to protect Truffula trees (a fictional species) from an industrialist named the Once-ler who is chopping them down.

The typical LSD "hit" contains about 100 micrograms of the drug – at the high end, that means a gram holds about 10,000 doses.

On April 15, 2014, the moon wasn't nearly as bright as the moon typically is, and appeared to take on a reddish color (from Earth, of course) – the result of a lunar eclipse, which occurs when the sun, earth and moon are aligned. The earth blocks most (but not all) of the sunlight that would have otherwise reflected off the moon's surface, leading to a dull, red sphere in the sky.

The whalers would go out into the water in hunt for their prey, armed with harpoons and, they hoped, some luck. The whales they were targeting needed to be in the bay, after all; otherwise, there's little chance of killing one and taking its body back to shore.

Dental floss? That's good for your teeth and gums. Fairy floss? That's anything but good for your oral health (and if you're in Australia, you already know that).

The name Edward Martin is hardly a household one. At the pinnacle of his career – at least, the part that's relevant to this story – he competed in his hobby's world tournament three times.

The problems that beavers can cause are, actually, pretty simple: firstly, the animals build dams – which is a very good thing if they're in a relatively rural floodplain, but a really bad thing if they're in more densely populated suburbs or cities – and secondly, if left unchecked, beavers in an area with a lot of humans can cause damage to trees and, in some cases, flooding.

Silly String is liquefied plastic compressed in an aerosol can. Point it at your friend, hit the button and the liquid plastic comes shooting out.

Beginning in the 1630s and lasting for more than two centuries, Japan's foreign policy was one of strict isolationism – to a violent degree. According to Wikipedia, the policy, called "sakoku," held that "no foreigner could enter nor could any Japanese leave the country on penalty of death."

The 1970 FIFA World Cup has a few unique claims it can make: it was the first and only time that Israel qualified for the final stage; it was also the only time that Argentina failed to qualify; and it was, to date, the only time that the qualification rounds helped spark a war.

Situated on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, better known as MIT, is the Green Building. Built in the early 1960s, the building is named after Cecil Howard Green, co-founder of Texas Instruments and a graduate of MIT – Green donated much of the money for the building's construction.