In 2011, archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of a Roman couple who have been holding hands for 1,500 years.
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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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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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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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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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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 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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