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.
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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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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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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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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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A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
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If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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