Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
16
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
140
An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
82
The 409 escalators in the London subway cover a distance every week which is approximately equivalent to several trips around the globe!
94
There is a persistent storm in Venezuela that produces lightning 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours per day and up to 280 times per hour and has been going since at least the 16th century.
25