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.
21
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.
25
An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
82
If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
18
The average person in their lifetime will spend an estimated 20,160 minutes kissing!
212
Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
14