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Moles are members of the Talpidae family divided into three subfamilies than include desmans, moles, and shrew moles.
Moles live in the underground tunnels. They dig actively, and can create a tunnel of up to 20m per day.
Female moles produce litter of up to seven (but usually 3-4) youngs in the summer.
Front limbs of European moles are spade-like with sharp claws, while their hind limbs are small and underdeveloped. The moles live up to three years, feeding mostly on earthworms. They also eat other invertebrates, small snakes and lizards.
Contrary to the popular belief, the moles are not blind. They have eyes and ears, but very small ones so they do not get filled with earth when mole is digging.
Baht is the currency of Thailand, and also is a unit of gold measure equal to 15.244 grams.
Dollar is the currency in several countries and regions. Its name comes from German "taler" (thaler), a coin minted from silver in 1519 in northwest Bohemia.
Euro is the currency of twelve European Union member states and the single currency for over 300 million Europeans.
Swiss franc is the currency of Switzerland and Liechtenstein. The word "franc" is believed to derive from the Latin inscription "francorum rex" ("King of the Franks") on early French coins, or from the French "franc", meaning "free".
Hryvnia (grivna) is the currency of Ukraine. The word "hryvnia" come from the Slavic "hryva", which meant "neck", and later something valuable worn around the neck, usually made of silver or gold.
The first fully-documented human blood transfusion was performed by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys in 1667. He transfused the blood of a sheep to a boy, who later died. Denys was accused of murder, blood transfusions were prohibited in France for next 150 years.
In 1818, British obstetrician and surgeon James Blundell performed the first successful transfusion of human blood to his patient. He performed later 10 transfusions, 5 of which were successful, and invented various transfusion instruments.
In 1901 Austrian biologist and physician Karl Landsteiner developed the system of classification of blood groups for which he was given the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1930. This discovery explained why many previous transfusions were unsuccessful.
In 1914 Russian physician Vadim Yurevich and Belgian doctor Albert Hustin used sodium citrate as an anticoagulant thus opening the way for blood banks.
World's first female President: Isabel Peron (Argentine)
First "test-tube baby": Louise Brown, born July 25, 1978 in England.
First telephone message by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876: "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
First person to become an Honorary Citizen of the United States: Winston Churchill in 1963.
First colour comic: "The Yellow Kid" by Richard Outcault, in New York World, 1895.
First instant messenger: ICQ released in November, 1996.
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent (the first is Asia) covering 20.3% of the total Earth's land area.
Africa's largest country is Republic of Sudan, and its smallest country is The Seychelles. Largest city is Cairo, Egypt with 9.2 million people.
The most populated country is Nigeria (over 130 million in 2005) which name suggested by The Times's editor in 1897 is the combination of words "Niger" (country’s longest river) and "Area". Nigeria is the 12th largest producer of petroleum in the world.
In 2003 36.2% of Africans lived on under $1 per day.
Africa is the oldest inhabited territory on earth – anthropologists' discoveries prove that humans appeared here perhaps as early as 7 million years ago.
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