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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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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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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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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