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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The average person in their lifetime will spend an estimated 20,160 minutes kissing!
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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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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.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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Your body is creating and killing about 2.4 million red blood cells per second.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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