An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 80km (50 miles) every day.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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The strangers in your dreams are actually people that you've seen in real life.
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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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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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