A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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In 2013, the Netherlands scheduled 19 prisons to be closed due to a lack of criminals.
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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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A woman from Michigan named Barbara Soper gave birth on 10/10/10, 09/09/09 and 08/08/08 — the odds of which are 50 million to one.
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There's a lizard known as the 'Jesus Lizard' that can run across water.
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According to official documents, Luo Meizhen was born in 1885, which would make her 127 years old when she died in 2013 and the oldest person ever to have lived.
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Steven Callahan spent 76 days at sea while he drifted 1,800 perilous miles across the Atlantic in a rubber raft, battling starvation, thirst, sharks and storms. He later became the technical adviser for the acclaimed movie Life Of Pi.
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The pea aphid insect explodes itself thereby sacrificing its life to protect its relatives from predators.
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