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Definition: Towards a higher place or position.
Meaning: Ở trên, lên trên, lên
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Fruit is meant to be a good part of a balanced diet, so even if you do end up spending a few bucks more on your favorite fruit, at least it's for a worthy cause.

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Thanks to mass production, even after shipping costs they still won't end up being too costly.

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If one of these elusive pineapples were to go up for auction or sale, due to the rarity, ancient technique, time spent growing, and manual labor, these pineapples are worth $16,000!

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With the debt piling up and the landlord on their tail, for rent arrears, Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nate Blecharczyk, found themselves between a rock and a hard place.

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Before they became a massive global success and a license to print money, the company required some start-up cash.

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They were a roaring success, shifting thousands of units, and securing that much-needed start-up capital.

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Starting up in their apartment in San Francisco in 2008, Airbnb had little use for an office, but as the company grew, this quickly became a necessity.

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Up until 2015, company founder Brian Chesky had the original Airbnb apartment up for rent on the site.

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Our solar system is made up of a star, eight planets and countless smaller bodies such as dwarf planets, asteroids and comets.

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While many European custards get their firmness from adding eggs, gelatin makes panna cotta difficult to mess up, and eliminates the possibility that you will end up scrambling your eggs in hot custard mix.

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Since the base recipe for panna cotta produces a very light taste, the dessert is often served "dressed up" with various sauces.

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Sprite was manufactured as Coca-Cola's response to the popularity of 7 Up.

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Sprite picked up popularity with teenagers in the 1980's after several advertising campaigns targeted at teenagers.

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Sprite can help relieve some stomach pains, such as those caused by a gassy build up.

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75% of all sesame seeds grown in Mexico end up on McDonald's hamburger buns.

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They grew up in a small log cabin, with just one room inside.

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EBay wasn't launched in the UK until 1999 which was 4 years after it was set up in the US.

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The sometimes blinding and glaring yellow background was the original design for the interface of eBay and it was used up until the site changed to white.

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Desktop computers are designed to be placed on a desk, and they're typically made up of a few different parts, including the computer case, monitor, keyboard, and mouse.

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A server is a computer that serves up information to other computers on a network.

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On the other hand, "dog people" make up 45% of the world.

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Otter poop has such a unique smell that it has even ended up with its own name - spraint.

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Otters have to eat vast amounts of food every day, which takes up a significant portion of their time.

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It's key to their survival to eat such great quantities, especially for sea otters, as they use up so much energy keeping themselves warm.

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A hippo can live for up to 40 years.

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Hippos will travel on land for up to 10km to feed.

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2g phones transmit data at about the same speed as a 56kbit/s (Kilobits per second) dial-up modem would get.

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Nowadays a drone can be picked up for under $50 in most toy stores or superstores and are great fun.

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It is, according to drone schools, illegal to fly your drone that's capable of traveling up to a mile or more any further than you can see it with the naked eye or above 400 feet.

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Banks like credit card accounts because people always end up paying more than the original price for an item and the banks get that extra money in the form of interest.

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UNESCO has set up a wide-ranging programme to safeguard this symbolic site and its surroundings.

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Horses can sleep standing up or lying down.

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However, these creatures can sleep either standing up or lying down.

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Their teeth take up tons of room.

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Their wing spans may have reached up to 9.8 foot (3 meters).

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Although eagles can live up to 70 years, this isn't always the case and they normally become weaker towards the end of their lives, unable to hunt as they used to.

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An eagle's brilliant eyesight is owed in part to its sizeable eyes, which can take up around 50% of the head.

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Jupiter is classified as a gas giant, both because it is so large and due to the fact that it is made up mostly of gas.

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When there is more demand, prices will go up because many people want to buy the same item but there is not enough supply for it.

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When demands for new goods and services go up, new markets come into being.

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This greater number of providers makes the supply go up, which forces the price down toward the cost of production and distribution.

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Apple pies or tarts have shown up, in one form or another, since the Middle Ages.

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A lion's roar is the loudest of any big cat and can be heard up to 8 km away.

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Most of us use their website or app on a daily basis, whether it's for going from video to video until you end up watching conspiracy theories, or just to entertain ourselves with cute cat videos.

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Initially, YouTube was created to be a video dating site called "Tune In Hook Up.".

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The largest single foreign community, representing less than one-tenth of the population, is made up of Chinese.

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Thai street food is a market place in Thailand where vendors set up stalls to sell food and people buy to enjoy on the go or directly on nearby tables.

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This event is set up throughout the day with many different Thai cuisines and desserts.

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Their diet is made up primarily of smaller antelopes including springbok, steenbok, Thomson's gazelle, impalas, and duiker.

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The cheetah is the fastest land animal in the world, reaching speeds of up to 70 miles per hour.

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Opportunity cost is the value of the next best thing you give up whenever you make a decision.

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For example, opportunity cost is how much leisure time we give up to work.

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However, in 2013, the Vatican announced that another way you can achieve this is by following the Pope and keeping up with live events such as the Catholic World Youth Day on Twitter.

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Justin Bieber, Barack Obama and Taylor Swift all boast millions of followers and are up there with the top 5 most popular Twitter accounts.

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Jack Dorsey posted the first tweet at 9:50pm and it read, "just setting up my twttr.".

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In 2007, Twitter started to experience big growth, and its communications and media team would take advantage of popular conference and events in order to maximize usage and get more people to sign up.

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Ebooks, like printed books, are largely made up of text, but can also include images.

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When they are domesticated, some will live up to 50 years.

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However, in the wild where life is riskier, peacocks and peahens generally live up to 20 years.

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A peahen can lay up to six eggs at a time, although there have been occasional cases of even more.

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They split up shortly after.

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Grab reached out directly to taxi drivers by signing them up at airports, hawker centres, taxi queues, and depots.

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Taking inspiration from Garrett Camp's ride sharing concept, Anthony decided to take this problem up as a project while studying at Harvard Business School.

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For the unclaimed dead, a city poet is hired to find out as much as possible about the person, and they then write up a poem about them and recite it at their funeral.

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Back when the city was being rapidly built up, the powers that be realized that, due to the premium value of house frontage on the canals and streets, they should tax house size on the width of the front, or façade.

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Because of this, the gorgeous old buildings you see lined up on the canal - and street-fronts of Amsterdam are particularly thin and tall.

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These hooks were fitted to the tops of houses so that large and bulky items could be winched into the house's upper floors rather than carrying them up the narrow, steep and winding stairways!

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This maze of canals actually splits Amsterdam up into what is technically 90 small "islands"!

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However, 16 years later, she made a determined comeback after becoming fed up with seeing French fashion become dominated by men.

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Some of the islets (small islands) rise from the water to heights of up to 330 feet.

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Two higher areas called continents make up the north and south of the planet.

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Doughnuts can be up to 25% fat because they absorb so much of the fat they are fried in.

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Hong Kong is made up of more than 200 islands which is why it is often necessary to travel over water bodies.

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Some islands that make up the Hong Kong region are completely uninhabitable and unreachable.

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Hong Kong governance system guarantees free education for students up to 12 years.

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Neptune's atmosphere is mostly made up of hydrogen and helium.

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He grew up in Vinci, Italy.

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To run for the position of Mayor of New York against Democrat Mark Green in 2001, Bloomberg gave up his position of CEO and appointed Lex Fenwick as CEO in his stead.

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There are many myths and legends of Machu Picchu being used as a site for human sacrifice, yet very little scientific evidence backs this fact up.

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It's no small surprise though, as the fabled mountain citadel was originally thought to be a sanctuary for the Chosen Women, who among other duties often ended up as human sacrifices.

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Machu Picchu is made up of nearly 200 buildings.

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Chobe National Park and Mokolodi Nature Reserve provide thrilling ways to see animals and nature up close, while the Botswana National Museum is the ideal stop for lovers of art.

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A 50th anniversary creation, this venomous vehicle doesn't have any issue living up to its name, just looking at the rear is enough to realize this.

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This amazing coating, called Koenigsegg Proprietary Diamond Weave, not only makes up most of the price it also sparkles when the sunlight hits and has been compared to millions of tiny diamonds.

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Modern commercial American cream cheese was developed in 1872, when William Lawrence, from Chester, New York, while looking for a way to recreate the soft, French cheese Neufchâtel, accidentally came up with a way of making an “unripened cheese” that is heavier and creamier, other dairymen came up with similar creations independently.

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Music executive Russell Simmons came up with the idea for the song "my Adidas" while high on PCP.

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Apparently, Simmons ran up to the group after smoking the substance and blurted something about rapping about their sneakers.

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These fancy names are new locations that McKinsey & Company have opened up across the world to enable their clients to get a real feel of business and technological solutions.

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These facilities are there to up the user experience of their clients by test implementation of tech strategies.

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They don't understand why people end up in politics;

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A powerhouse that won't be going anywhere soon and are just going to gather even more momentum, swallowing up companies like YouTube, making searching for information easier and more efficient, whilst giving you a great mail client and a million other side ventures.

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Six Flags and Samsung teamed up in 2016 to create North America's first Virtual Reality Rollercoasters which used Samsung Gear VR equipment.

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It's no small surprise though, as the fabled mountain citadel was originally thought to be a sanctuary for the Chosen Women, who among other duties often ended up as human sacrifices.

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The ALV, or Autonomous Land Vehicle, project in America carried out the first example of a car following a road that used computer vision and autonomous robotic control, it reached up to 19 mph, using newly developed technology from numerous scientific powerhouses including the University of Maryland.

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Rumor has it that Forrest Mars only really teamed up with Bruce Murrie because his father owned Hershey's, the company which provided the majority of chocolate rations during the war.

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Smarties were developed in 1937, and when Forrest Mars saw that the outer shell prevented the inner chocolate filling from melting, he decided to come up with a similar product.

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And if you're still not convinced that M&M's are some of the most-loved chocolates the world has ever known, the M&M's factory produces more than 69,000 pieces per second to keep up with the staggering worldwide demand!

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There are up to 1,500 different species of spiders, and some of them are poisonous while others are totally harmless.

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Much like when you log into your online bank account and see your balance, you also have a bitcoin wallet that is established when you sign up.

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It's such a large country, and with 91% of the surface area taken up with vegetation, it's a very prosperous country too.

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75% of all sesame seeds grown in Mexico end up on McDonald's hamburger buns.

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Otter poop has such a unique smell that it has even ended up with its own name - spraint.

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2g phones transmit data at about the same speed as a 56kbit/s (Kilobits per second) dial-up modem would get.

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It is, according to drone schools, illegal to fly your drone that's capable of traveling up to a mile or more any further than you can see it with the naked eye or above 400 feet.

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UNESCO has set up a wide-ranging program to safeguard this symbolic site and its surroundings.

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A lion's roar is the loudest of any big cat and can be heard up to 8 km away.

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Their diet is made up primarily of smaller antelopes including springbok, steenbok, Thomson's gazelle, impalas, and duiker.

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Grab reached out directly to taxi drivers by signing them up at airports, hawker centres, taxi queues, and depots.

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Taking inspiration from Garrett Camp's ride sharing concept, Anthony decided to take this problem up as a project while studying at Harvard Business School.

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A rabbit can easily live up to 10 years, if properly taken care of.

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The plant is a small leaf bush, with multiple stems, that can reach up to three meters in length.

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Hong Kong is made up of more than 200 islands which is why it is often necessary to travel over water bodies.

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Some islands that make up the Hong Kong region are completely uninhabitable and unreachable.

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Saffron comes from the saffron crocus, this flower bears up to four flowers with each having three vivid crimson stigmas, these stigmas are handpicked, dried and then air sealed which kind of explains the price.

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Truffles are held very highly in society and are incredibly tasty but in many people's opinion the price is nothing more than a status symbol with white truffles costing up to $1,400 per pound.

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He grew up in Vinci, Italy.

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Modern commercial American cream cheese was developed in 1872, when William Lawrence, from Chester, New York, while looking for a way to recreate the soft, French cheese Neufchâtel, accidentally came up with a way of making an "unripened cheese" that is heavier and creamier, other dairymen came up with similar creations independently.

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These fancy names are new locations that McKinsey & Company has opened up across the world to enable their clients to get a real feel of business and technological solutions.

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These facilities are there to up the user experience of their clients by testing the implementation of tech strategies.

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