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 oldest stone tools found are dated from 2.7 - 2.9 million years ago. The species that made these tools is unknown.
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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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Only about 2% of the world population has green eyes.
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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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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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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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