Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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In Georgia, there is an airtight room called the Crypt of Civilization that was sealed in 1940. It contains numerous artefacts documenting what life was like at the time of sealing, and is scheduled to be opened in the year 8113 to show people of the future exactly what life was like.
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A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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It's possible to die from a broken heart; it's called Stress Cardiomyopathy.
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