If you have 1 billion dollars and spend $1,000 every day, it would take you 2,740 years to go broke.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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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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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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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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Your body is creating and killing about 2.4 million red blood cells per second.
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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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The average person in their lifetime will spend an estimated 20,160 minutes kissing!
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