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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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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If you have 1 billion dollars and spend $1,000 every day, it would take you 2,740 years to go broke.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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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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Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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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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