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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A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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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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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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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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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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