Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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It's possible to die from a broken heart; it's called Stress Cardiomyopathy.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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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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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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There are so many kinds of apples that if you ate a new one everyday, it would take over 20 years to try them all.
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