In Georgia, there is an airtight room called the Crypt of Civilization that was sealed in 1940. It contains numerous artefacts documenting what life was like at the time of sealing, and is scheduled to be opened in the year 8113 to show people of the future exactly what life was like.
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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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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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No one knows Albert Einstein's last words. Just before he passed, he spoke several words in German, but his nurse only knew English.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Your body is creating and killing about 2.4 million red blood cells per second.
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