The 409 escalators in the London subway cover a distance every week which is approximately equivalent to several trips around the globe!
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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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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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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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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The average person in their lifetime will spend an estimated 20,160 minutes kissing!
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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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