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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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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The largest breed of rabbit is the Flemish Giant.
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Only about 2% of the world population has green eyes.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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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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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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